Biblia latina.
Edited by Johannes Andreas de Bussis, bishop of Aleria. Add: [Pseudo-] Aristeas: Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus; translated by Matthias Palmerius.
Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [not before 15 Mar.] 1471.
Fol. [1-28 3-710 88 9-1210 1312 14-1710 18-198 20-2410 258 26-2810 2912 30-3410 358 36-4010 418 42-4510 4612 47-5110 528 53-5610 57-588 59-6210 63-658]. [628] leaves (1/1, 2/8, 3/1, 29/12, 30/1, 58/8, 65/7-8 i.e. ff. 1, 16, 17, 282, 283, 564, 627, 628 blank).
ISTC ib00535000; GW 4210; Goff B535; BMC IV 12 (IC. 17163); Bod-inc B-245; CIBN B-368.
| GIP number: | B41 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Euing Dq-a.1, 2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Bound in two volumes, dividing after Psalms (i.e. after 29/12 = f. 282). |
| Provenance: | Unidentified owner: three oval ownership stamps and a probable ownership inscription, all erased, on 1/2r. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown; an early Euing inventory number “No 30” on verso of front free endpaper of vol. I; Euing’s shelfmarks “XII.x.4” and “XII.x.5” on verso of front free endpapers. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | Italy, 18th-century gold-tooled calf; covers decorated with an anthemion roll border; rebacked in 19th/20th century (earlier spine coverings lost); marbled endpapers with watermark “ROMA” visible on free endpapers; green silk bookmarks. Size: 418 x 298 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 408 x 288 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand on 1/2v and 1/3r of vol. I; manicule and marginal annotation “hic deficit multu[m]” at the beginning of Joshua: 5 on 12/1v (f. 105v) of vol. I; early signatures throughout; catch-words supplied perpendicular to the text on final verso of each quire; 19th-century price “£42-” and a code “vx-v v” in pencil on first front flyleaf of vol. I. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red throughout; guide-letters in brown ink supplied in the margins (more numerous in vol. I); running headings supplied in red (occasionally in blue) throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves 1/1, 2/8, 3/1, 29/12, 30/1, 58/8, 65/7-8 (ff. 1, 16, 17, 282, 283, 564, 627, 628). |
