Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Aureola ex floribus S. Hieronymi contexta.
Add: [Pseudo-] Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi. [Pseudo-] Aurelius Augustinus: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi. [Pseudo-] Cyrillus: Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi.
[Milan]: Philippus de Lavagnia, 28 Nov. [1]475.
8vo. [1-128 136 (-13/4) 14-228 232]. [175] leaves (13/4 cancelled).
ISTC ih00157000; GW M07937; Goff H157; BMC VI 702 (IA. 26116); Bod-inc H-101; CIBN H-93.
“The Aureola is the work elsewhere attributed to Lupus de Oliveto (or Olmeto) with title Regula monachorum ex Epistolis Hieronymi excerpta (B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta, IIIb (Steenbrugis: 1970) no. 552; Sack (Freiburg) 2294)” - ISTC.
GIP number: | H25 |
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
Variant: | 10/2v (f. 74v), line 15: “Explicit ...”, not as in BMC “Explitit ...” - cf. CIBN H-93. |
Note: | Stub of 13/4 visible conjoint with 13/3. |
Provenance: | Giacomo Soranzo (1686-1761), Venetian senator: inscription on front flyleaf “1742 Di Giaco: Soranzo”. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 236 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 12 livres 1 sou. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 9 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ag.10.25”. |
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; blue silk bookmark. Size: 190 x 134 mm. |
Leaf size: | 185 x 126 mm. |
Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations in a humanist hand (cropped by binder); occasional early nota marks; the number “147” and a code(?) “m.” in an 18th-century hand on front flyleaf. |
Decoration: | On 1/1r a four-line historiated initial “F” in red, blue, black, purple and white, set on a square gold ground and with floral extensions into the margins, depicts St Jerome with cardinal’s hat and halo, holding an open book; on 10/3v (f. 75v) a five-line initial “R” in purple, green and blue is set on a square gold ground, with floral extensions into the margins; other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue throughout; capitals and chapter headings washed in yellow throughout. |
Imperfections: | None. |