Legenda S. Annae.

Leipzig:  Melchior Lotter, 16 Sept. 1498.
4to.   A6 B4 C6 D-E4.   [24] leaves.
ISTC ia00746000;  GW 2004;  Goff A746;  CIBN V-223.

GIP number: L12
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll T.C.L. 284 (see main library entry for this item)
Note: Blind impression of a single line of type at foot of A1.
Provenance: Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Jesuit College:  inscription on D4v “Collegij Societatis Jesv Hildesij a[nn]o 1598”.
Free Church College Library, Glasgow (later Trinity College Library), founded 1856:  source unknown;  pencil shelfmark of Trinity College Library “39 A/2” on front free endpaper.
University of Glasgow:  Trinity College Library placed on permanent deposit in University of Glasgow Library in 1974 by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Binding: Germany, 18th/19th-century speckled calf, gold-tooled spine;  sprinkled red-edged leaves;  inner margin of leaf D4v strengthened with paper guard on which are visible two manuscript lines of German in a 17th-century(?) hand.   Size:  199 x 132 mm.
Leaf size: 196 x 129 mm.
Annotations: Occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand;  "Oratio pudica de S[an]cta Anna" on A1r;  unread early inscription on D4v - a name(?) followed by a possible price “- 2 -”;  19th-century note on rear free endpaper “20 Blätter.  Am Ende fehlt”.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: Wanting quire E.

 

Annotations in Legenda S. Annae