Michael Scotus: Expositio super auctorem spherae.
Bologna: Justinianus de Ruberia, 16 Sept. 1495.
4to. a8 b-i4. [40] leaves.
Woodcut initial; woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC im00550000; GW M23273; Goff M550; BMC VI 849 (IA. 29195); CIBN M-349; BSB-Ink M-387.
Two copies held by the University of Glasgow.
Copy 1
| GIP number: | M32/1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Ferguson Al-a.6 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | In this copy a3 signed “aiii” (another copy in the Ferguson collection M32/2 has “iiia”); unlike the copy described in BMC, the signature dij in this copy has not been printed by error on the last leaf of quire d. |
| Provenance: | Breslauer & Meyer, booksellers, 134 Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin: booksellers’ ticket on rear pastedown. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: Ferguson’s acquisition note in pencil on inner front cover “John Ferguson Dec. 6. 1898. 19 years since I got D. Laing’s copy! This one is a good bit larger”; presumably acquired from Breslauer & Meyer. University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921. |
| Binding: | Germany, 19th-century decorated paper covers with green and red design on dull gold background. Size: 204 x 152 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 204 x 149 mm. |
| Annotations: | “No 2” in pencil on a1r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
Copy 2
| GIP number: | M32/2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Ferguson Al-c.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | In this copy a3 signed “iiia” (another copy in the Ferguson collection M32/1 has “aiii”); unlike the copy described in BMC, the signature dij in this copy has not been printed by error on the last leaf of quire d. |
| Provenance: | Brunyncx (late 16th century): on a1r “Non degennerrat [a motto?] Brunyncx 1599”. David Laing (1793-1878), antiquary and librarian of the Signet Library: lot 3355 in Catalogue of the first portion of the extensive and valuable library of the late David Laing ... which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on Monday, 1st December, 1879 ... (London: 1879); sold to Hopkins for £8.0.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 791. Hugh Hopkins (b. 1831), bookseller, Glasgow; see above. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: Ferguson’s pencil acquisition note on front flyleaf “J F Xmas 1879 D. Laing’s Copy”; presumably purchased from Hopkins. University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921. |
| Binding: | 19th-century, grained blue goatskin; covers decorated with a gold-tooled border; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 199 x 147 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 195 x 141 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
