Perottus, Nicolaus: Rudimenta grammatices.
[Venice]: Gabriele di Pietro, 21 Dec. 1475.
Fol. [a10 b-h8] i8 l-n8 o-p6. [110] leaves.
ISTC ip00303400; BMC V 201; Bod-inc P-122.
Dated 'duodecimo Cal. Januarias 1475'. The partial use of signatures suggests that the book may have been printed in Dec. 1474 or Jan. 1475 (BMC).
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Euing BD7-d.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Leaves [a1] and p6 are mounted. |
| Provenance: | Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex: armorial bookplate remounted on front pastedown, with handwritten shelfmark “IX N.h.7”; not traced in 'Bibliotheca Sussexiana. Catalogue of the ... library of ... the late Duke of Sussex' (London: 1844-46). Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s inventory number “No 897” in pencil on [a2r]; purchased from Knight 22 Dec. 1860 according to Euing’s acquisitions inventory (MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 15th/16th-century bare wooden boards; rebacked in calf in the 20th century and calf corner-pieces added; geometrical design consisting of squares divided into triangles scored into the wood of the front board; evidence of a single clasp (now lost); unread annotations in ink on rear board; red-edged leaves; “Peroto” written in black ink from tail to head on fore-edge; modern endpapers (originals not preserved). Size: 296 x 203 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 287 x 198 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in Latin in a 17th/18th-century hand, mainly extracting key phrases; partially read marginal annotation in Italian on p5v “1485 adi 6 zugno [...] Questo peroto [...]” accompanied by pen-and-ink drawings of a tower and arrows. |
| Decoration: | Three line initial “D” on [a2r] supplied in red on a square ground of red pen-work, with red pen-work decoration extending into the inner margin; paragraph marks in red on [a2r], and in the top margin in red ink “-: IESVS :-”; [a1] mounted with the result that pen-and-ink drawings of weapons (including a cross-bow and a dagger) on the blank page [a1r] are partially obscured. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
