Gerson, Johannes: Conclusiones de diversis materiis moralibus, sive De regulis mandatorum.
[Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473]
4to. [1-210 3-48]. [36] leaves (4/8 blank).
ISTC ig00205000; GW 10737; Goff G205; Bod-inc G-103; CIBN G-157.
Date taken from ISTC; GW and Bod-inc date [ca. 1474].
| GIP number: | G27 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.31 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 4/7v (f. 35v), line 19 "... mandatoꝛnm. qui" not as GW "... mandatoꝛum. qui". |
| Bound with: | The fifth of five incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Nicolaus de Hanapis, Exempla sacrae Scripturae ex utroque Testamento collecta. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473] (N4); (2) Gerson, Johannes, De ecclesiastica potestate et de origine iuris et legum tractatus. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473-74] (G32); (3) Gerson, Johannes, De auferibilitate Papae. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1474] (G28); (4) Gerson, Johannes, De contractibus. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473-74] (G31). |
| Provenance: | Paris, Jesuits: inscription on 1/1r of first item in volume “Coll. Paris. Soc. IESV”. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 158 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769). NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 35 livres. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 12 livres; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Af.9.24”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 202 x 144 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 195 x 135 mm. |
| Annotations: | Single word annotation on 1/1r; word erased on 1/1v and replaced with manuscript correction. |
| Decoration: | Text area enclosed within double red ink rules and lines of text separated by red ink rules throughout; initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red throughout; occasional line fillers in red; running headings supplied in red throughout (but with some gaps); regulae numbered with roman numerals in red ink in quires 1-2, from 1/1v to 2/2r (f. 12r). |
| Imperfections: | None. |
