Liber de gestis ac trina b[ea]tissimor[um] triu[m] regum tra[n]slac[i]o[n]e, : q[ui] gencium p[ri]micie [et] exe[m]plar salutis omniu[m] fueru[n]t chr[ist]ianor[um] ... .
Joannes,of Hildesheim,-1375.
Albertus,Magnus, Saint,1193?-1280.
Augustine,of Hippo, Saint,354-430.
Guldenschaff, Johann,active 1477-1490,printer.
Plummer, Andrew,1748-1799,former owner.StEdNL: Sund.18(2)
Balfour, James,Sir,1600-1657,former owner.StEdNL: Adv.MS.18.4.8(1)
Sibbald, Robert,Sir,1641-1722,former owner.StEdNL: Adv.MS.18.4.8(1)
[Cologne] : P[er] me Joh[ann]es Gulde[n]schaff de mogu[n]cia anno a natiuitate chr[ist]i .M.cccc.lxxviij. fideli exarac[i]o[n]e impressus: ...,
[1478]
Title and imprint from colophon.
Leaves 43v-52v contain: Sup[er] mathei eua[n]geliu[m] venerabilis d[o]m[ini] Alberti magni notula de festo e[pi]ph[an]ie. - Leaves 53r-55r contain: Sermo beatissimi augustini de epiphania domini.
Signatures: [a¹⁰ b-e⁸ f⁶ g⁸].
Signatures from GW.
With manuscript marginal annotations.
Illuminated and painted initial on recto of first leaf with painted floral border in upper part of gutter margin. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red.
With two leaves bearing manuscript contents at front of volume: one in Balfour's hand and one in an earlier hand.
Bound with ISTC ij00112000.
ISTC
BM 15th cent.,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Bound in a volume with armorial bookplate of Plummer of Middlestead on front pastedown with Gi/h 1792 in red pencil above. Sunderland Hall library label with shelfmarks D2 and F3. Part of the Sunderland Hall collection deposited at the Library in 1986.
Ink inscription at foot of first leaf: 1630 Ja: Balfourinus Kyniardia Miles Leo Armorum Rex. Bought by the Advocates Library 9 April 1723 at Robert Sibbald's sale, Bibliotheca Sibbaldiana, p. 140, no. 29. StEdNL: Adv.MS.18.4.8(1)
18th-century calf with gilt stamped Plummer crest on front board, gilt tooled spine with red leather title labels and blind tooled board edges.
17th-century? leather with blind rolled border on front and back boards and gilt rolled board edges. Rebacked February 1970.
Magi
Germany Cologne.