Servasanctus de Faenza: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis.
Zwolle: [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479.
Fol. [110 2-428 436]. [344] leaves, 1, 11, 343, and 344 blank.
ISTC ib00948100; GW 4811; Goff Suppl. B948; BMC IX 80 (IB. 48104); CIBN B-672 (B).
The attribution of the Sermones de tempore et de sanctis to Saint Bonaventura is spurious. The true author of the great majority of the Sermones is Servasanctus de Faenza - see B. Distelbrink, 'Bonaventurae scripta', 1975, p. 187 (no. 209), pp. 184-185 (no. 205). Entered under Pseudo- Bonaventura by GW, Bod-inc, CIBN and others. Goff notes that the work is sometimes erroneously attributed to Hugo de Sancto Caro.
Formerly assigned to Peter van Os (cf. HPT).
| GIP number: | S31 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-c.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Rotermund (19th century): name "Rotermund" on 1/2r. John Mozley Stark (fl. 1851-1888), bookseller, stationer, printer, and publisher, Hull & London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s inventory number “No 91” in ink on 1/2r; purchased from Stark 3 June 1857 according to Euing’s acquisitions inventory (MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 19th-century blind-tooled calf; marbled endpapers; binder’s ticket on verso of front free endpaper “Bound by R. Nelson Glasgow”; 18th-century front and rear flyleaves retained, with watermark of a shield bearing the letter “D” supported by two lions rampant and surmounted by a crown. Size: 303 x 222 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 289 x 205 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional brief marginal annotations in a 15th/16th-century hand; early manuscript signatures, mainly in black ink but occasionally in red; bibliographical notes relating to this edition in a 19th-century German hand on front flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first and final two blank leaves. |
