Biblia. [Latin]
[Speyer: Peter Drach], 1489.
Fol. a-z8 aa-cc8 dd6 ee-zz8 A-E8 F-G10 H-T8 U-X6 Y8 AA-EE8. [582] leaves.
ISTC ib00587000; GW 4264; Goff B587; BMC II 497 (IB. 8603); Bod-inc B-296; CIBN B-414; BSB-Ink B-461.
| GIP number: | B61 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Euing Dv-d.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s pencil acquisition date “7 5 51”, early inventory number “No. 25”, and shelfmark “V-y-8”, all in pencil on front pastedown; source unknown. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | 17th-century blind-tooled calf; covers decorated with a large stepped centre-piece and a floral roll border; rebacked in 19th century and given new pastedowns (originals not preserved). Size: 303 x 220 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 290 x 208 mm. |
| Annotations: | Signature oo1, wrongly signed “mm”, corrected in pen-and-ink to “oo”. |
| Decoration: | Thirteen-line calligraphic initial “F” supplied in red on a2r; eight-line initial “I” on a5v supplied in red and blue with reserved white; in quires a-o smaller initials are supplied in red, often with reserved white and often with marginal flourishes, along with intermittent capital strokes and paragraph marks in red; the remainder of the book is undecorated, except for leaves u3v- u7r, which have initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
