Quaestiones naturales antiquorum philosophorum.
Cologne: Cornelis de Zierikzee [after 1500?]
4to. a6 B4. [10] leaves.
ISTC iq00010000; Goff Q10; BMC I 310; Bod-inc Q-004.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Ferguson Ai-a.26 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | B4r, final line of colophon: “... Corueliom ...” not as BMC “... Coruelium ...”. |
| Bound with: | The third of three items bound together. Bound with (1) Albertus Magnus [pseudo-], De secretis mulierum et virorum. Strassburg: Matthias Hupfuff, 1510; (2) Albertus Magnus [pseudo-], Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam. [Cologne]: Cornelis de Zierikzee, [ca. 1506]. |
| Provenance: | Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (ca. 1792-1869), magistrate and antiquary, Nancy: bookplate on front pastedown “Bibliothèque de Mr. Beaupré, Conseiller à la Cour de Nancy”. Henri Leclerc (early 20th century), bookseller Paris: sold book to John Ferguson. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: pencil acquisition note on front pastedown “J Ferguson 4 May 1906”; note of Ferguson’s supplier on rear pastedown “H Leclerc” together with price code “es/-”. University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921. |
| Binding: | France, 19th-century brown grained morocco; gilt spine title; red silk bookmark. Size: 203 x 145 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 201 x 136 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
