Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus.
Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 24 Oct. 1481.
Fol. [1-88]. [64] leaves (1/1, 8/8 blank).
ISTC id00159200; GW M22259; Goff N153; BMC I 249 (IB. 4045); Bod-inc D-044; CIBN D-85; BSB-Ink M-292.
Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris BN MS. lat 8512, and to the Milanese doctor Mayno de Mayneriis (Magninus Mediolanensis) on the basis of a MS. at Cremona C, supported by local references in the text (Pio Rajna, 'Intorno al cosiddetto Dialogus creaturarum ed al suo autore', in Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, 10 (1887), pp. 75-113).
Two copies held by the University of Glasgow.
Copy 1
| GIP number: | D6/1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll S.M. 1984 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 8/7v (f. 63v) col. 2, line 3: "... exſipens ...” as in BMC, not “... expenſis ...” as in Polain(B) 1265. |
| Note: | 1/7 misbound between quires 7 and 8. |
| Provenance: | Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878), 9th baronet, art historian and collector: armorial bookplate on front pastedown and book-label "Emblems Keir" on rear pastedown; Stirling Maxwell's shelfmark "27B" on rear pastedown and another Stirling Maxwell shelfmark "ll 1" in pencil on front free endpaper. Sir John Stirling Maxwell (1866-1956), 10th baronet, Sir William’s son: bequeathed a portion of the Stirling Maxwell library to the University of Glasgow Library in 1956 (received in 1958). |
| Binding: | England, 19th-century speckled calf; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; Stirling Maxwell's armorial stamp in blind on front cover, his monogram in blind on rear cover; binder's stamp “Bound by F. & T. Aitken”. Size: 276 x 197 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 268 x 185 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional early nota marks and occasional early marginal annotations (some cropped); pencil annotations "Perfect", price "£1-15-0" and number "309" on front free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | Five-line initial "S" supplied in red pen-work on 1/7v; other initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves 1/1 and 8/8. |
Copy 2
| GIP number: | D6/2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-d.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 8/7v (f.63v) col. 2, line 3: “... expenſis ...” as in Polain(B) 1265, not “... exſipens ...” as in BMC. |
| Provenance: | Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller, London: pencil note on front pastedown "Thorpe £4-4-0". Henry Charles Langbridge (fl. 1828-1852), bookseller, Birmingham: vendor. Maurice Ogle & Son, booksellers, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow (1832-1871): agent? William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased 4 Sept. 1844 (from Langbridge via Ogle?); Euing's pencil acquisition notes on front pastedown "4.9/44" and "ca/-Langbridge/Ogle" together with his early inventory number "9". University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to one of two University Library bookplates on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 19th-century brown calf; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 292 x 211 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 287 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Traces of early manuscript signatures in red ink; 19th-century pencil notes on front pastedown referring to Longman's Catalogue (1882), no. 105 and Colonel Stanley's sale (1813), lot 443 (the Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 1480 edition); 19th-century pencil price code on rear pastedown "r£r/z"; traces of an erased inscription on front free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in alternate blue and red, some with reserved white; paragraph marks supplied in red or blue; capital strokes in red; chapter headings underlined in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves 1/1 and 8/8. |
