Margarita Davitica, seu Expositio psalmorum.
[Augsburg: Günther Zainer, ca. 1475-76]
Fol. [1-1010 116 12-138 142]. [1], ij-Cxxij, [2] leaves.
Woodcut initials and borders.
ISTC im00262000; GW M20961; Goff M262; BMC II 323 (IB. 5586); Bod-inc M-096; CIBN M-131; BSB-Ink M-171.
Two copies listed in Glasgow Incunabula Project; copy 1 held by University of Glasgow Library and copy 2 held by the Mitchell Library
Copy 1
| GIP number: | M17 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll T.C.L. f65 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Blind impression of five lines of type on 1/1v. |
| Provenance: | Weihenstephan, near Freising, Bavaria, Benedictines (founded 1021, dissolved 1803): armorial bookplate “Closter Weichenstephan Ord: S: Bene: negst Freysing M: U: Hittingerin sc: Fris.” (Warnecke, 2395) pasted onto inner front board. Munich, Royal Library (now Bayerische Staatsbibliothek): perhaps a duplicate; “Dupl” in pencil on 1/1r. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown. Free Church College Library, Glasgow (later Trinity College Library), founded 1856: presented by Euing, April 1867 (see GUL MS Euing 50); embossed stamp ‘Free Church College Library, Glasgow’ on 1/2r; pencil shelfmark ‘40 B/4’ on 1/1r, and other Trinity College shelfmarks ‘20/1’ and ‘21/2’ on Weihenstephan book-plate. 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, 15th/16th-century quarter blind-tooled calf (extremely worn) over wooden boards; decorated with fillets and two separate tools (a circular tool of a six-petalled flower and a lozenge-shaped tool with a foliate? design); evidence of two fore-edge clasps, both now lost; spine repaired with paper bearing a worn manuscript title; 15th/16th-century paper title label with worn manuscript lettering pasted onto outer front board; without pastedowns; parchment fragments from a late medieval manuscript used as guards and spine strengtheners; fragments of paper with manuscript text in German adhering to both inner boards. Size: 283 x 199 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 275 x 194 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional annotations in an early hand. |
| Decoration: | Nineteen-line woodcut initial “I” on 1/1v and twelve-line woodcut initial “P” with its woodcut border on 1/2r decorated in green and yellow; other woodcut initials throughout decorated in red; capitals and printed paragraph marks stroked in red throughout; underlining in red throughout (including printed foliation). |
| Imperfections: | None. |
Copy 2
| Accession number: | 167526 |
| Note: | Quire 14 (the Registrum) is bound at the beginning. |
| Note: | Blind impression of five lines of type on 1/1v. |
| Provenance: | Landshut, Bavaria, Franciscans, SS. Petrus & Paulus (dissolved 1802): printed label “Ad Franciscanos Landishuti” in lower margin of 14/1v (f. 123v). Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex: armorial bookplate with handwritten shelfmark “W.f.9” on front pastedown; not found in the sale catalogue, Bibliotheca Sussexiana (London: 1844-46). Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Thorpe 25 Sept. 1849 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code “25 9 49 db/- S & Son Thorpe” on verso of front free endpaper. Stirling’s Public Library (now part of the Mitchell Library), Glasgow: bookplate on front free endpaper inscribed “A Donation from Wm. Euing Esq”. |
| Binding: | 19th-century quarter calf; marbled paper-covered pasteboards; spine decorated with ornaments in blind; red leather title label on spine; khaki-coloured endpapers. Size: 304x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 295 x 209 mm |
| Annotations: | Early interlinear annotation and nota mark on 2/6r (f. 16); 16th-century shelfmark “C/97” on 14/1r (f. 123r); 19th-century number and price in pencil “2939 2/2/0” on second front flyleaf; 19th-century note “Edition fort rare” on 14/1r and a reference to Panzer’s Annales; 19th-century note on this edition signed “J.B.S.” pasted onto front board; number “5129” in blue pencil and initials “J M B” in purple ink on Sussex bookplate. |
| Decoration: | Seven woodcut initials decorated in red in quire 1; capital strokes supplied in red in quires 1 and 14. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
