Glasgow Incunabula Project update (16/3/11)

By Julie Gardham on March 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

The following ten book descriptions have recently been added to the incunabula project website:

Sidonius Apollinaris: Epistolae et carmina [Utrecht: Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt, not after 1474]
Leonardus de Utino: Quadragesimale aureum [Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, not after 23 Oct.] 1471
Tibullus, Albius: Elegiae [Venice: Vindelinus de Spira], 1472
Schut, Engelbertus, de Leydis: De arte dictandi et De elegantia dictatus [Gouda]: Gerard Leeu, [between 3 June 1480 and 5 Sept. 1482]
Paiellus, Guglielmus: Congratulatio pro patria ad Nicolaum Tronum [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, after 13 Nov. 1471]
Petrus Franciscus Ravennas: Oratio pro patria ad illustrissimum principem Nicolaum Tronum [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, after 25 Feb. 1472]
Philelphus, Franciscus: Epistola ad Nicolaum Tronum [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, after 3 Dec. 1471]
Justinianus, Bernardus: Oratio habita apud Sixtum IV contra Turcos [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, after 2 Dec. 1471]
Varro, Marcus Terentius: De lingua latina [Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, ca. Dec. 1474]
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Epistolae ad Lucilium [Italian] Venice: Sebastiano Manilio, and Stephanus and Bernardinus di Nallis, 14 Apr. 1494

Binding stamped with initial of Guillaume Prousteau from Sidonius Apollinaris: Epistolae et carmina (Sp Coll Bn6-c.5.)

Highlights include a book that once belonged to the French jurist Guillaume Prousteau (1626-1715), in a 16th century blind stamped binding; four rare tracts printed by Nicolaus Jenson in Venice in 1471/72, bound together and previously not catalogued as separate items; a book of sermons heavily annotated by a contemporary reader; and an Italian translation of Seneca.

Regular visitors to the website may notice that we have now split the provenance index for individuals into three pages. This is because the page was becoming so long that we could no longer add any further data to it! As the project grows with more details of books being added, we will have to split other index pages similarly.