Author
Guillermus, Parisiensis
Title
Postilla super epistolas et evangelia.
Imprint
Paris : Ulrich Gering, 30 October, 1478.
Physical description
238 leaves ; folio.
Note
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Note
Colophon on leaf G6v: "Finit postilla sup[er] euangelia d[omi]nicalia/ et super euangelia de sanctis [...] Impressu[m]q[ue] est hoc opus p[ar]isius per magistrumvlricu[m] Gering. Anno. M.cccco.lxxviii. penultima Octobris.".
Note
Signatures: a-z8 A-F8 G6.
Note
Leaves i1 and i3 signed I1 and I3.
Note
Spaces, with guide letters, for initials.
Note
Leaf size: 202 x 135 mm.
Note
Text begins on leaf a2r: "uItam bonam ex exitum beatum. Ego frater Guillermus sacre theologie p[ro]fessor minim[us] parisius educatus. Sacror[um] euangelior[um] ac epistolaru[m] de tempore diebus d[omi]nicis et sanctis. ...".
Formatted contents note
Contents: a2r [Introductory preface.] Incipit: ‘uItam bonam et exitum beatum. Ego frater Guillermus sacre theologie professor . . .’ -- a2r [List of doctors of the Church, with abbreviations of their names.] Incipit: ‘Sunt autem hec doctorum nomina. Sancti Augustini, sancti Gregorii . . .’ -- a2v ‘Ad quos sanctus Paulus scripsit epistolas.’ Incipit: ‘Romani. Sunt qui in partibus Italie . . .’ -- a3r [Postillae super Epistolas.] Incipit: ‘fRatres, scientes q[ui]a hora est ia[m] nos de so[m]no surgere . . .’ -- l3r Postilla super evangelia dominicalia. Incipit: '[I]n illo tempore. cum appropinquallet Iesus ierosolimis ...' -- B4r Postila super evangelia de sanctis. Incipit: 'iN illo t[em]p[or]e. Ambulans iesus iuxta mare galilee: vidit duos fratres ...". -- G7v [Colophon].
Citation/references note
ISTC, ig00671500
Citation/references note
GW, 11936
Citation/references note
CLC, G1248
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), G49
Provenance
Inscription in 15th-century hand at head of leaf G5v: "Liber dom[us] de Edyndon" (i.e. Edington, Wiltshire, House of Bonshommes, of St James, St Catherine, and All Saints). See N. R. Ker, Medieval libraries of Great Britain: a list of surviving books (London, 1964), pp. 77, 401; and online at: http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/e/mlgb/book/2529/?search_term=edington&page_size=500.
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark R44 on fore-edge.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
19th-century brown quarter calf; boards covered with parchment; vertical blind roll along edge of calf, where it meets the parchment; spine with four semi-raised bands, blind and gilt fillets; drab endleaves; pressmark (R44) in ink on fore-edge; possible traces of title in ink on fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
"Kynfare" (i.e. Kinver?) is written in ink on leaf G5v.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting leaves a1 and G6 (blank).
Copy-specific note
Decoration in red ink on leaves a2-a5, f7v-g1r, i6v-i8r z3v-z4r, z7r-z8r: initials, highlighting strokes on capital letters, underlining, and line fillers. Some pages have underlining in brown ink.
Copy-specific note
Occasional reading marks and marginal annotations (not in Edmund Guest's hand) in ink on leaves d1r, d3r-v, q6r-q8r, s4v-s5r, t7v, y7v.
Subject
Catholic Church
Subject
Church year sermons Early works to 1800.
Subject
Sermons, Latin Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Gering, Ulrich, -1510 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--name
Edington Priory (Wiltshire, England) former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
B13238
UKSbSC
20211011121703.2