Barbarus, Hermolaus: Castigationes Plinianae et Pomponii Melae.
Rome: Eucharius Silber, 24 Nov. 1492, 13 Feb. 1493.
Fol. a-z8 aa-bb8 cc10 A-I8 K-L6 2a-e8 2f6 2g8. [348] leaves.
ISTC ib00100000; GW 3340; Goff B100; BMC IV 113 (IB.18955); Bod-inc B-046; CIBN B-71; BSB-Ink B-58.
| GIP number: | B7 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bh8-d.4(see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | a3r as in GW’s main transcription, not as in GW’s Anm. |
| Provenance: | Robert Foulis (1707-1776) & Andrew Foulis (1712-1775), printers and booksellers, Glasgow. University of Glasgow: purchased from the Foulis brothers, 9 June 1742, for £0.8.0; see GUA 353; shelfmark ‘K.8.12’ on book-plate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | England, 20th century. Rebound by Douglas Cockerell and Son, Nov. 1965, in quarter brown goatskin, marbled paper sides, new endpapers; replacing an 18th-century(?) brown sheep quarter binding, marbled paper sides; Cockerell binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown (sample of previous binding not preserved). Size: 326 x 223 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 319 x 215 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations throughout - often extracting keywords - in a 16th-century hand; occasional underlining and corrections; heavily deleted inscription on a1r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
