Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum.
[Lyons]: Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart, 29 July 1480.
Fol. a-i10 k-l8 L8 m-x10 y-z8 ⁊8 ↄ8 A-F10 G-H8. [322] leaves, the first and last blank.
ISTC ib00132000; GW 3404; Goff B132; BMC VIII 245 (IB. 41584); Bod-inc B-061; CIBN B-96; BSB-Ink B-91.
| GIP number: | B9 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-c.4 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | a2r: headline (which is centred) reads “Prohemium” (BMC records a variant setting “Prohemi ” set above the second column); a3r: headline 'De deo' as Walsh 3746, not 'De angelis' as Walsh 3747. |
| Provenance: | Zwiefalten, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Benedictines, BVM (founded 1089, dissolved 1802): inscription on a2r “Monasterij B. Mariae in Zwifalten”. John Mozley Stark (fl. 1851-1888), bookseller, stationer, printer, and publisher, Hull & London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Stark 20 Jan. 1855 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code “20-1-55 dg/- Stark” on front pastedown; an early Euing inventory number “143” in pencil on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to one of two University Library bookplates on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | Germany, 16th-century blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; covers decorated with intersecting triple fillets to form a centre panel and surrounding frame; the centre panel is divided by triple fillets into lozenge and triangular-shaped compartments, each decorated with separate rosette stamps; spine undecorated (but with a title label added in the 19th/20th century); remains of two clasps; brass catch plates on front board; endpapers and flyleaves (not contemporary) have a tête de boeuf watermark surmounted by a five-petalled flower on a stem. Size: 317 × 222 mm.. |
| Leaf size: | 303 x 217 mm. |
| Annotations: | Nota marks and underlining on o2 and on y9r; quires numbered ‘1-34’ in a 16th-century hand in lower inner corner of first recto; various 19th-century inscriptions on front pastedown including bibliographical references in a German hand in pencil, number ‘81’ in ink (lightly scored through in pencil), and a price in pencil ‘2/12/6’ beneath which are unread (?)initials. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied throughout in red or red and reserved white, often with marginal flourishes; capital strokes, paragraph marks, and underlining in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves a1 and H8. |
