Johannes Chrysostomus, S.: Liber de eo quod nemo laeditur ab alio nisi a semetipso fuerit laesus.
[Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca. 1468]
4to. [1-28 36]. [22] leaves (3/6 blank).
ISTC ij00291000; GW M13309; Goff J291; BMC I 182 (IA. 2811); Bod-inc J-132; CIBN J-186; BSB-Ink I-350.
As dated by Needham(Zel); BSB-Ink dates [ca. 1467-72]; ISTC dates [ca. 1470].
| GIP number: | J17 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.24 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Two printer's pin-holes visible on lower edge of some leaves. |
| Note: | In this copy the final blank leaf 3/6 is bound at the beginning. |
| Note: | Between 1/8 and 2/1 is inserted leaf 1/8 from Ulrich Zel’s edition of Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Isagogicon moralis disciplinae [Cologne: ca. 1470] (ISTC ib01249000). |
| Bound with: | The second of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: [Pseudo-] Aurelius Augustinus, De vita christiana. [Cologne]: Ulrich Zel, 1467 (A123). |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 244 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769), where the binding is incorrectly described as “mar. r.” NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 99 livres 18 sous. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 58 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24v), where the binding is correctly described as “M: Cit:” University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ay.5.12”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century citron 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: 220 x 147 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 215 x 138 mm. |
| Annotations: | Brief marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand on 1/8r and 2/8v (f. 16v); occasional underlining and nota marks; incipit repeated in manuscript in a 16th-century hand on verso of blank leaf 3/6, which is bound at the beginning. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
