Crastonus, Johannes: Lexicon Graeco-latinum.
Edited by Bonus Accursius.
Vicenza: Dionysius Bertochus, 10 Nov. 1483.
Fol. a10 b-z8 &8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-F8 G6. [264] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC ic00959000; Goff C959; BMC VII 1049; Bod-inc C-471; GW 7813.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-b.4 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Gathering [rum] misbound before gathering [con]; leaf a10 misbound after i8. |
| Variants: | a3r, line 2: “Alpha . cum . A .”; text of c3v and c6r correctly printed; type-page on f2r measures 213 mm in length rather than 208 mm - for the above variants see CIBN C-659; G6r, first line of colophon: “... Vincentiæ ...” as in BMC not “... Vicentiæ ...” as in GW. |
| Provenance: | Joseph Lilly (1804-1870), bookseller, 19 King St., Covent Garden, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased 12 June 1852 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code on verso of front free endpaper “12. 6. 52 bh/f Lilly” together with an early Euing inventory number “27”; also on the same page (and repeated on a2r) is a later Euing inventory number “No 3902”, which refers to a second copy of this work bought by Euing from the London bookseller, Thomas Arthur, 18 Dec. 1868, but “Presented to Mr J.G. Smith September 1870” according to Euing’s later acquisition inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | England, 19th-century brown calf, covers bordered with a gold-tooled floral roll; rebacked in 20th century; marbled endpapers; marbled-edged leaves; binder’s stamp on verso of front free endpaper “Bound by J. Mackenzie Bookbinder to the King”. Size: 317 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 300 x 200 mm. |
| Annotations: | Additions to the vocabulary occasionally added in Greek and Latin in margins in a 16th-century hand; 19th-century price “£1.11.6” in pencil on verso of front free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
