Bonatus, Guido: Decem tractatus astronomiae.
Additions by Jacobus Canter. Edited by Johannes Angeli.
Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 26 Mar. 1491.
4to. π14 a-z8 A-Z8 AA-EE8. [422] leaves. First quire is numbered but not signed.
Woodcuts; woodcut initials; woodcut printer's device printed in black and red.
ISTC ib00845000; GW 4643; Goff B845; BMC II 384 (IA. 6713); Bod-inc B-416; BSB-Ink B-652.
Two copies held by the University of Glasgow.
Copy 1
| GIP number: | B91/1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-e.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Richard Pype/Pipe (16th century): possibly to be identified with Sir Richard Pype, Lord Mayor of London in 1578 (d. 1587): “Richard Pype” stamped in ink on upper margin of a2r. John Pearson (late 19th century), private bookseller, 38 Sussex Street, Pimlico, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Pearson 18 Feb. 1868 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code on a2r “18 2 68 Pearson ab/f” together with Euing’s inventory number “No 3556”; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to one of the two University Library bookplates on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | England(?), 16th/17th-century calf; covers decorated with a quadruple blind-fillet border; front pastedown of parchment, rear pastedown of paper; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 209 x 162 mm. |
| Leaf size: | Leaf size: 203 x 150 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent 15th/16th-century marginal notes in Latin throughout in various hands (some cropped by binder); frequent 17th-century marginal notes in English in quires b-n; occasional manicules; paginated (rectos only) “3” to “807” in an early hand; 19th-century price “12/6” in pencil on front pastedown. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Lacks the first quire, a1 and EE7-8. |
Copy 2
| GIP number: | B91/2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BE6-c.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | University of Glasgow: source unknown; not recorded in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis, (Glasguae: 1791); a superseded University of Glasgow Library shelfmark “KH.9.15”, which has been transferred in typescript onto the volume’s modern book-plate, suggests that the book probably came into the University Library’s collections sometime in the 19th century. |
| Binding: | Rebound ca. 1990 in the University of Glasgow Library Conservation Unit in modern pigskin; previous binding unrecorded; single brass clasp, new endpapers and flyleaves; 15th/16th-century manuscript title on lower edge of leaves “Guidonis Bonat”; now housed in a buckram-covered box. Size: 225 x 170 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 210 x 155 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional 16th-century marginal annotations and underlining; zodiac symbols added in ink in an early hand to the woodcut signs of the zodiac which appear on I8v-K8r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
