Gesta Romanorum.
[Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger], 15 Jan. 1488.
Fol. a-b8 c-m6.8 n8 o6. [1], Folium Primum - Folium XCIII, [6] leaves.
ISTC ig00291000; GW 10896; Goff G291; Bod-inc G-152; CIBN G-240; BSB-Ink G-209.
| GIP number: | G38 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bm1-e.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | a2r, line 1 begins “Ex gestis ...” not as in GW “Es gestis ...” |
| Note: | Quire o (Tabula) bound between a1 and a2. |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Columna, Guido de, Historia destructionis Troiae. [Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, between 1480 and 1485] (C71). The two works were certainly bound together by 1691 since both titles are specified in the entry in Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691 – see Provenance. |
| Provenance: | Henricus Molitor (15th/16th century): signature on a1r “Hinric[us] molitoris” and on n8v “Hinricus molitoris”. University of Glasgow: shelfmark “AA. f:4: n:17” on a1r matching entry ('Gesta Romanorum ... It[em] Hist[oria] Trojana ...') in Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691 (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313); inscription on a1r “Ex Libris Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis empt: publicis sumptibus Academiae 1691” followed by signature “Will: Dunlop princ[ipa]ll” (repeated on b7r and i1r); shelfmark “CS.1.13” on University Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | Scotland, 20th-century half black goatskin, blue cloth sides; sprinkled red-edged leaves; gilt spine title and oval gilt stamp of Glasgow College Library at foot of spine; modern pastedowns; no surviving evidence of earlier binding; tears indicating now lost tabs on a2r of first item and on a2r of second item. Size: 283 x 205 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 276 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Single word annotation on e4v. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red throughout; most chapter headings preceded by paragraph mark in red; capital strokes in red in running headings, occasionally in text. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
