Perger, Bernardus: Grammatica nova.

Memmingen:  Albrecht Kunne, 1484.
4to.   a-l8.   [88] leaves.
ISTC ip00278500; GW M31002; BSB-Ink P-195.

Adaptation of Nicolaus Perottus, 'Rudimenta grammatices'. 

GIP number: P12
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll BD7-f.9 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance: Henry George Bohn (1796-1884), bookseller, London:  bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown.
William Euing (1788-1874) insurance broker, Glasgow:  source unknown;  acquired 15 Aug. 1859 according to Euing’s pencil note “15.8.59” on front pastedown, together with his acquisition number “No 528” and the number “1975”.
University of Glasgow:  presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown.
Binding: 19th-century calf (rebacked), decorated with a single gold fillet;  red-edged leaves.   Size:  198 x 142 mm.
Leaf size: 193 x 138 mm.
Annotations: Frequent early marginal annotations in Latin;  number “884/3” in ink (19th century) on front pastedown.
Decoration: Initials supplied in red in quires a and b (offsetting of colouring of two initials from a8r to a1v);  some capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red in the same quires together with red underlining.
Imperfections: Wanting c8 and l5.

 

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