Stoeffler, Johannes and Pflaum, Jacob: Almanach nova in annos 1499-1531.

Add:  Regiomontanus:  In ephemerides commentarium.   Erklerung des Nuwen Almanach.   Canon de domibus coeli fabricandis.   Tabula correctoria.

Ulm:  Johann Reger, 13 Feb. 1499.
4to.   [1-28 312 410 5-3714 384].   [520] leaves, 17, 32, 33, and 54 blank.
Woodcuts;  woodcut initials.
ISTC is00791000;  Goff S791;  BMC II 542;  Bod-inc S-324.

Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.48 (see main library entry for this item)
Note: In this copy 1/8 misbound between 1/5 and 1/6;  2/4 and 2/5 (ff.12 and 13) misbound between 2/7 and 2/8 (ff.15 and 16).
Provenance: William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  source unknown.
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “A.11.14”.
Binding: England, quarter red morocco, marbled sides, by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Aug. 1966;  replacing an (18th-century?) red morocco quarter binding, marbled sides;  binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown.   Size:  176 x 134 mm.
Leaf size: 170 x 130 mm.
Annotations: Occasional 16th-century marginal, interlinear annotations and corrections of text;  frequent underlining and pointing hands;  frequent paragraph marks supplied in black ink.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: A fragment;  wanting 1/1 and all after 2/8 (f.16).

 

Woodcut diagram in Stoeffler, Johannes and Pflaum, Jacob: Almanach nova in annos 1499-1531