De iustitia commutatiua.
Sobrinho, João,-1486.
Marchant, Guy,printer.
Tom Valentine Ltd.,binder.StEdAL
Constable, David,1795-1867,former owner.StEdAL
Faculty of Advocates (Scotland).Library.depositor.StEdAL
Impressus Parisius : Per Guidonem Mercatoris ...,
anno domini 1496 die 14 Nouembris [14 November 1496]
Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon on leaf f8v, which reads: Tractatus perutilimus de iusticia co[m]mutatiua, et arte campsoria seu cambiis ac alearum ludoviri clarissimi sacre theologie [pro]fessoris eximij magistri Iohannis consobrini portugalensis ordinis fratru[m] gloriosissime dei genitricis marie de mo[n]te carmeli feliciter explicit. diligenti opera ac ingenti cura [per] venerabile[m] Iacobum Lupi sacre theologie bachalarium bene meritum. Impressus Parisius per Guidonem Mercatoris in Ca[m]po gaillardi. Anno domini. 1496. die. 14. Nouembris.
Chancery octavo. Leaf a3r: 27 lines; area of text: 102 x 68 mm. Printed initials and paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Metal-cut printer's device (92 x 70 mm.) of Guy Marchant on title leaf: "[T]he third of Guy Marchant's six devices ... At the top is a rebus consisting of musical notes, sol and la and the words Fides ficit, to represent the motto, 'Sola fides sufficit' (from the hymn, 'Pange lingua gloriosi, ' of St. Thomas Aquinas). Below the motto are the initials, G and M, the G being set in type and the M cut in the block. Below these are two clasped hands issuing from clouds and flanked by angels. The device depicts the workshop of Saints Crispin and Crispinian, patron saints of shoemakers. It has been suggested that the presence of these saints might be explained if Marchant were a native of Soissons, where they were especially honored. Between the saints is a shield, with a book, possibly a Bible, held open by two hands. The word, sola (sole of the foot) and the boots in the shoeshop suggest the word marchant, a play on the printer's name."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 23.
Signatures: a-f⁸.
With marginal annotations in an early hand.
Goff
GW
ISTC
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Bought by the Advocates Library at David Constable's 1828 sale (lot 728). On deposit from the Advocates Library.
19th-century calf with blind rolled border on front and back boards, gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins and gilt edges, with 2008 reback by Tom Valentine Ltd preserving blind tooled spine.
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