Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum.
[Lyons: Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart], 10 Dec. 1482.
Fol. π8 a-l8 m-n10 o-q8 A-E8 F6 G-I8 K10 L-O8 P12 Q10 R12. [286] leaves (π1, a1 blank). Preliminary quire numbered but not signed.
ISTC ib00135000; GW 3407; Goff B135; BMC VIII 246 (IB. 41590); Bod-inc B-063; CIBN B-99.
| GIP number: | B10 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variants: | a2r, lines 1-3 read as in GW’s main transcription, not as in GW’s Anm.; h3 correctly signed “h3” not “g3” - cf. BMC; B3 signed in error “G3” - cf. BMC. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Z.7.14”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century calf, covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border; rebacked in 19th or 20th century; sprinkled red-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 291 x 200 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 281 x 196 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations in Latin in a 16th/17th-century hand, and one in French on D1v; a few missing or erroneous signatures supplied or corrected in pen-and-ink. |
| Decoration: | Principal initials supplied in red and blue with reserved white; other initials and paragraph marks supplied throughout in alternate red and blue. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting quire π and the blank leaf a1. |
