Limos, Andreas.: Dubia in insolubilibus.

Paris:  Félix Baligault, for Gilles de Gourmont, 30 Oct. 1499.
4to.   a-g6.   [42] leaves.
Woodcut initials.
ISTC il00221700;  GW M18368;  C3602;  Oates 3108.

GIP number: L26
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll BC33-d.8 (see main library entry for this item)
Bound with: The third of eight incunabula bound together.   Bound with:  (1) Magistri, Martinus, Expositio super Praedicabilia Porphyrii.  Paris:  Félix Baligault, for Durand Gerlier, 27 Mar. 1499 (M3);  (2) Bricot, Thomas, Insolubilia;  Obligationes.  Paris:  [André Bocard], 1498 (B107);  (4) Alliaco, Petrus de, Conceptus et insolubilia.  Paris:  Guy Marchant, 29 Jan. 1498/99 (A45);  (5) Buridanus, Johannes, Sophismata.  Paris:  Félix Baligault, 20 Nov. 1493 (B115);  (6) Alliaco, Petrus de, Tractatus exponibilium.  Paris:  Antoine Caillaut, [ca. 1497] (A49);  (7) Buridanus, Johannes, Consequentiae.  Paris:  Antoine Caillaut [ca. 1495] (B113);  (8) Buridanus, Johannes, Consequentiae.  Paris:  Guy Marchant, 10 Jan. 1498/99 (B114).
Provenance: Anthonius Rogant/Rogantus (fl. 1537), of Montpellier:  inscription on g6v “Petrus Chabrias Anthonio Rogantj de monte pessulano Amico Noſtro S.P.D.” dated “Bononię, Idibus martij i537 Petrus Chabrias”;  at foot of same page “Rogant”.
Petrus Chabrias (fl. 1537):  see above.
Frater Joannes Batt[ist]a(?) (16th century):  probable owner – inscription “Ad vsu[m] fratris Jo: Battãe a Calatagne” on a1r of first item in volume.
Naples, Capuchins, S. Ephrem and BVM (founded 1572, suppressed 1863):  probable owner;  on a1r of first item is a circular book-stamp ‘BIBLIOTECAE CAPVCCINORVM CONCEPTIONIS NEAPOLIS’ heavily scored through in ink and, on the same page, a partially deleted manuscript inscription indicating the same ownership;  see www.bnnonline.it/index.php?it/324/possessori/possessori_508e7ec2a179d/58
William Laing (1764-1832), Edinburgh bookseller:  possibly sold book to Richard Heber – see below.
Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector:  lot 5288 in Bibliotheca Heberiana, part 5 (London:  Wheatley, 1835);  sold for £0.2.0 according to the priced copy of the Heber sale catalogue in the British Library (shelfmark RAR 002.092 Heb), which also records that Heber himself paid £0.3.0 for the book - corroborated by a note in ink by Heber on front flyleaf “Feb. 181[2?] Laing(?) Sale of Imp[ortant](?) Books - 3 -”.
Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Edinburgh University:  purchased at the Heber sale, with Hamilton’s pencil note on front flyleaf “Hebers Sale 2/”.
University of Glasgow:  Hamilton collection donation, 1878.
Binding: Italy, 16th/17th-century parchment;  faded ink spine title and shelfmark “148” at foot of spine, faded unread lettering at head of spine;  front endpapers replaced in late 19th or early 20th century.   Size:  215 x 145 mm.
Leaf size: 203 x 137 mm.
Annotations: Occasional underlining in dull red ink.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: Wanting quires a-e.

 

Ownership inscription in Limos, Andreas: Dubia in insolubilibus