Bonaventura, pseudo [i.e. Gulielmus de Lanicia (died before 1310), OFM]

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Description

Diaeta salutis. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, 1474, 69 leaves (of 70, without initial blank), double column, 40 lines, Gothic type, 2- to 4-line initials supplied in red, red initial- and section-strokes, headlines supplied in red ink, some annotations

Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC). De finibus bonorum & malorum ad Brutum. Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 6 November 1480, 77 leaves (of 78, without initial blank), 36 lines, Roman type, 4- to 5-line initial spaces, last leaf repaired in margins

2 works in one volume, Chancery folio (285 x 200mm.), early nineteenth-century green straight-grained morocco gilt by Storr of Grantham, with his ticket, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges

Provenance

1st work: "Ego frater Wilhelmus Casterius comparavi hunc librum dum essem in Homburgk coro hospitii propter expulsionem... anno 1528...", inscription on first leaf; from the library of the royal monastery of St Peter at Erfurt, inscription at head of first leaf; 2nd work: Hieronymus Leopoldus, inscription at foot of a2; John Hayford Thorold and Syston Park, bookplates, sale in these rooms, 13 December 1884, lot 329, £1-10s., Ridler; J.W. Pease; bookplate of Edward Pease, Otterburn Tower, Northumberland; sale at Hodgson's, 19 November 1959, lot 232, £125, Charles W. Traylen, Guildford, Surrey, for Lord Wardington

Literature

1st work: HC 3528; GW 4720; BMC i 219; Bodleian XVc. B-437; Goff B874; 2nd work: HCR 5327; GW 6887; BMC v 222; Bodleian XVc. C-290; Goff C566

Catalogue Note

The copy of the pseudo-Bonaventuran but definitely Franciscan Diaeta has been rubricated, read and annotated with some care. On [2]a1r the word 'guerrarum' has been glossed 'belli', and on the verso of the same leaf 'oceanus' has been crossed out and glossed in the margin 'est mare circumiens totam terram', 'famelicus' on a2r has been explained as 'esuriens', and on a2v there is a longer note on the word 'taxillos'. A different hand is found elsewhere in the text, and 'NB' is marked in the margins at various points. ISTC lists only three copies of Diaeta salutis in the UK (two in Oxford, one in Cambridge) and three copies in the US. The Cicero is a much more common text. This too has some marks of reading, but it is not at all clear when the two texts were brought together.