Incipit tabula sermonum Sancti Augustini ep[iscop]i & doctoris ecclesiae. ad heremitas.
Augustine,of Hippo, Saint,354-430.
Britannico, Giacomo,-1518 or 1519,printer.
Elliot, John,Abbot,active 1505-1532,former owner.StEdNL
Hamilton, Thomas,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
B., A. M.,former owner.StEdNL
Inchcolm Abbey,former owner.StEdNL
Maggs Bros.,bookseller.StEdNL
Impressum Brixiae : per Iacobum Britannicum Brixianum.,
anno Domini M.cccc.lxxxvi. die v. Ianuarii. [5 January 1486]
Title from incipit of table (leaf a2r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf x12v).
Signatures: a-u⁸, x¹².
Leaf a1 is blank.
Capital spaces with guide letters, and printed capitals on leaves a3v and b4v.
Initials supplied in red and blue.
With marginal annotations, largely cropped. Bibliographical notes in pencil on front flyleaves.
Goff
BM 15th cent.,
GW
ISTC
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
Contemporary inscription on recto of leaf a2 recording ownership by the Monastery of St. Columba on the Island of Inchcolm through John Elwand (Elliot), Abbot from 1505 until around 1532: Liber monasterii Insule sancti Columbe per venerabilem in Christo patrem Io [rest mutilated]. 16th-century ink ownership inscription of Thomas Hamilton on recto of leaf a2. Monogram booklabel with letters A M B on front pastedown. Durkan and Ross record the book as being in the posession of Maggs in 1961. Bought by the Library 10 April 1964. Bookseller's catalogue cutting placed in box.
18th-century red morocco with wide gilt floral border and oval centre-piece with frame of small fleurons and large fleuron in centre on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine with two black leather gilt stamped labels, gilt rolled boards edges and turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled endpapers.
Sermons
Italy Brescia.