Spiera, Ambrosius de: Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae.
Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 18 Dec. 1476.
Fol. [*]10 [†]8 a-l10 m8 N6 n-z10 aa-ii10 kk12 ll-rr10 ss12 ſſ10 tt-zz10 [et et]10 [con con]6. [512] leaves, 1, 19, 511, 512 blank. Quire [*] numbered from 2 to 5, quire [†] from 6 to 9 (neither quire is signed).
ISTC is00678000; GW M43136; Goff S678; BMC V 248 (IB. 20573); Bod-inc S-277; CIBN S-367; BSB-Ink S-522.
| GIP number: | S48 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): lot 72 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M***' (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Peter Molini, for 40 livres 4 sous; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aw.2.2”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin, each cover decorated with a border of triple gold fillets and eight separate ornaments at the corners and edges, with the Brancas de Lauraguais arms (Olivier 740) in gilt in the centre; gold-tooled-spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; red silk bookmark. Size: 305 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 300 x 205 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations in Latin in several 16th/17th-century hands; occasional “nota” marks and manicules in a 16th-century hand; running headings “i”-“XXXXV” indicating each sermon; several medicinal recipes in Italian in a 16th-century hand on [con con]4v, and the same hand is responsible for some of the marginal annotations in Latin e.g. on f6r and f6v; inscription in a 16th/17th-century hand on [*1r] “diuersitas mor[um] i[n] hominibus no[n] prouenit ex temperatura corpor[is] ut uolu[n]t medicj nec ex syderibus ut uolu[n]t astronomi, sed ex libero arbitrio ut uolu[n]t phil[osophi] et theologj [...]”; 16th/17th-century shelfmark(?) “Q1” in ink on [*1r]. |
| Decoration: | Initials (often with marginal flourishes), paragraph marks, and capital strokes supplied in red in quires [*], [†], a-ſ, x-y, ff, ll-nn, qq-rr (the remaining quires are completely undecorated). |
| Imperfections: | Wanting r5.6, and the blank leaves a1 and [con con]6. |
