Nicolaus de Hanapis: [Virtutum vitiorumque exempla]. Exempla sacrae Scripturae ex utroque Testamento collecta.
[Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473]
4to. [1-910 1012]. [102] leaves (10/12 blank).
ISTC in00104500; GW M26446; Pell 4656; CIBN N-54; BSB-Ink N-101.
The work is an abbreviated alphabetical subject-arrangement of de Hanapis's Virtutum vitiorumque exempla, here printed anonymously.
The text is often attributed to S. Bonaventura with title Biblia pauperum (V. Scholderer in Gb Jb pp.61-62 = 50 Essays pp.140-41: Version B).
| GIP number: | N4 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.31 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The first of five incunabula bound together. Bound with: (2) Gerson, Johannes, De ecclesiastica potestate et de origine iuris et legum tractatus. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473-74] (G32); (3) Gerson, Johannes, De auferibilitate Papae. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1474] (G28); (4) Gerson, Johannes, De contractibus. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473-74] (G31); (5) Gerson, Johannes, Conclusiones de diversis materiis moralibus, sive De regulis mandatorum. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473] (G27). |
| Provenance: | Paris, Jesuits: inscription on 1/1r “Coll. Paris. Soc. IESV”; not found in Jesuit sale catalogues (Paris, 1763 and 1764). Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 158 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 12 livres; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen 36, f. 24r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Af.9.24”. |
| 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; green silk bookmark. Size: 202 x 144 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 195 x 135 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | Text area enclosed within red ink rules and lines of text separated by red ink rules throughout; initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red throughout; several line fillers in red; running headings supplied in red throughout (a few cropped by binder). |
| Imperfections: | None. |
