Sidonius Apollinaris: Epistolae et carmina.
Add: Decimus Magnus Ausonius: Caesares, 1-3, Monosticha.
[Utrecht: Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt, not after 1474]
Fol. [1-1010 11-148.10 1510 166]. [152] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC is00493000; GW M41999; Goff S493; BMC IX 7 (IB. 47049); Bod-inc S-194; CIBN S-249; BSB-Ink S-377.
| GIP number: | S36 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bn6-c.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 7/2r (f. 62r), line 2: “... quos iam regi ...” as in BMC’s first copy (IB.47049), not “... quos iā regi ...” as in BMC’s second copy (IB.47049a). |
| Provenance: | Guillaume Prousteau (1626-1715) jurist, of Orléans: ‘hic lib[er] fuit Guil[lemi] Prousteau Antecess[oris] Aurel[ianensis] nunc est usus studios[orum] o[mn]ium’ on 1/2r; see also Binding. University of Glasgow: acquired by the University Library before 1791; shelfmark “BN.4.2” on University Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, 'Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis', (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 16th-century blind-tooled calf (heavily worn); covers decorated with intersecting double fillets to form a centre panel within an undecorated frame; the panel is divided diagonally by double fillets into lozenge and triangular-shaped compartments, each containing a fringed foliage tool; pierced holes on remains of outer edge of front cover are evidence of some form of fastening (now lost); gilt initials ‘G’ and ‘P’ added onto front and rear covers respectively in 17th/early 18th century. Binding and contents restored by Anthony Gardner, Jan. 1966; rebound in goatskin over new oak boards with original covers feathered on; binder’s note on new rear free endpaper. Size: 300 × 206 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 287 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Title ‘Epistole sidonj’ in an early hand on 1/1r; brief 15th-century note on the author in faded ink on 1/1v ‘Sidonius e[pisco]pus Aruernor[um] ... temporibus Zenonis Augusti. Anno d[omi]ni cccclxxx’; note of purchase ‘emt[us] An[n]o d[omi]ni 1529 2s[olidis]’; frequent underlining and interlinear corrections of text and punctuation in the first half of the book; several early marginal annotations in Latin (one in Greek); extensive 16th-century annotation in Latin on 16/6v (f. 152v) continuing onto surviving portion of what was the original rear pastedown; partial foliation (erroneous) in brown ink in an early hand; running book numbers ‘1-9’ of the Epistolae on most rectos. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
