Johannes XXI, Pont. Max. (Petrus Hispanus): Thesaurus pauperum.
With additions by Petrus de Tussignano and Bernardus de Gordonio.
Antwerp: Thierry Martens, 22 May 1497.
Fol. a8 b6 c-f6.8. [42] leaves (f8 blank).
Quire c is unsigned.
ISTC ij00241000; GW M32419; Goff J241; BMC IX 204 (IB. 50018).
| GIP number: | J14 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.4 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | f7v, final line of colophon has the misprinted date “1476” - cf. BMC. |
| Bound with: | When acquired by Hunter, this copy of the Thesaurus pauperum was bound with a copy of Nicolaus Praepositus': Dispensarium ad aromatarios. [Lyons: Mathias Huss, ca. 1495] (P87), and he subsequently had the two works bound separately; see Hunter's undated manuscript note tipped-in at the front of his copy of the Dispensarium, in which he believed both works were printed by Martens and in which he described the make-up of his copy at the time of purchase: "This book is the same sort of paper, the same type, and the same columns &c as the Yspanus (Thesaurus Pauperum) Antwerp, 1476. The only difference I can observe is that this has the folia numbered & a Register at the end so that I presume it was printed by the same person but later, & as a confirmation I bought them bound up together in very old binding." The Praepositus is now shelved at Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.2. |
| Provenance: | Jacobus (16th/17th century): inscription on a1r “Jacobus [...]”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ad.8.19”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century brown calf; gold-tooled spine, with William Hunter’s personal binding tool of a hunting horn suspended on cords in bottom compartment; sprinkled red-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; flyleaves have a Pro Patria watermark and “G R” countermark surmounted by crown; Hunter’s titling instructions to binder loosely inserted “Calf Gilt Petr. Yspan. Thes. Paup.” Size: 277 x 200 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 274 x 198 mm. |
| Annotations: | 19th-century note on the author and his text on f8r. |
| Decoration: | Spaces for initials have small guide-letters supplied in brown ink in an early hand. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting bifolium b1.6 (with blank leaves substituted). |
