Burlaeus, Gualtherus: De vita et moribus philosophorum.
[Cologne]: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, [between 18 Mar. and 20 Sept. 1479]
8vo. π8 2π6 a-l8 m10. [112] leaves.
Format recorded as 4to in GW, Polain, Walsh.
ISTC ib01316000; GW 5782; Goff B1316; BMC I 246 (IA. 4111); CIBN B-931.
Complete edition.
| GIP number: | B119 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bd.2.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Stephanus Brincklaeus, possibly to be identified with Stephen Brinkley (c.1550 - after 1585), clandestine printer: partially cropped inscription ‘Stepha[nus] Brinckl[aeus](?)’ in dull red ink on π1r. Nicholas Kinnersley (16th century) - possibly Nicholas Kinnersley of North Witham, Lincolnshire, matriculated Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1576 aged 18, and student of Inner Temple, 1577 (see Foster, vol. II, p. 857): inscription on π1r “Su[m] liber Nicholai Kinnerslei”, repeated on m10r. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplates on front and rear pastedowns (the latter bearing a former shelfmark “Aw.12.15”). |
| Binding: | 16th-century parchment over pasteboards; covers decorated with a single blind fillet border; traces of early handwriting (offsetting?) on exposed inner front board; parchment fragment from a liturgical manuscript bound-in at front (intended as a pastedown?) and overwritten with 16th-century English financial accounts; parchment fragment with three lines of unidentified Latin text bound-in at rear (also intended as a pastedown?); four paper flyleaves at rear, one of which has a watermark of a pot couronné; two paper stubs at front of volume - indicating removal of two flyleaves. Size: 168 x 120 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 163 x 115 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal notes and underlining in a 16th-century hand; deleted (ownership?) inscription on π1r beginning “This is [...]” with a heavily cropped inscription in the lower margin; foliated from a2-m10 “fol. 2”-“fol. 98” in a 16th-century hand. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in brown ink in the early quires. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
