Albumasar: Introductorium in astronomiam.
Translated by Hermannus Dalmata.
Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 7 Feb. 1489.
4to. a-h8 i6. [70] leaves.
Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
ISTC ia00359000; GW 840; Goff A359; BMC II 382 (IA. 6683); Bod-inc A-157; CIBN A-194; BSB-Ink A-230.
| GIP number: | A40 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-e.16 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | Once bound with a copy of Leupoldus, Dux Austriae, Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 9. Jan. 1489 (ISTC i100185000); see Provenance. |
| Provenance: | Joseph Arnoult (late 18th century), Professor of Medicine at Nantes: faded inscription on a2r, partially legible under ultraviolet light “ex Lib. Josephi Arnoult d.M. [...] à cause du traité des sciences des astres de Leopold [...] relié en ce même volume”; heavily faded annotation by Arnoult after the printed title on a1r “avec Leopold [...] astrorum scientia (relié en ce même volume) [...]”. Thomas Arthur (fl. 1856-1876), bookseller, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Arthur 30 May 1870 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code on a1r “30 5 70 Arthur ae/-” together with his inventory number “No. 4829”; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisition inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | 19th-century parchment, decorated with triple gold fillets; red leather title label on spine. Size: 216 x 156 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 212 x 149 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional early underlining; traces of an early numbering at lower outer corner of many rectos. |
| Decoration: | Capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
