Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin].
Translated by Georgius Valla. Add: Vitruvius: De architectura; Angelus Politianus: Panepistemon; Lamia (Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis Analytica); Frontinus: De aquaeductibus.
Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497.
Fol. (1-4)8 [*2] A-I6 K-L4 a-b6 aa6 bb4. [94] leaves, leaf 8 blank. The first gathering is numbered but not signed.
Woodcut diagrams and initials.
ISTC ic00742000; Goff C742; BMC V 522, XII 37; Bod-inc C-378; GW 7123.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bh3-e.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Gathering b misbound between gatherings aa and bb. |
| Bound with: | The second of three incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 15 July 1500; (3) Scriptores rei militaris. Bologna: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis, 1495-96. |
| Provenance: | Strassburg, Collegiate Church of New S. Peter, consecrated in 1050, taken over by the Lutherans in 1561: cf. inscription on A1r of first item in volume “Collegii S. Petri junioris Argentinæ” in a 17th/18th-century hand. University of Glasgow: source unknown; shelfmark “C. f.7. n.1.” on verso of front free endpaper (possibly a University Library shelfmark of the mid-18th century); later 18th-century shelfmark “T.1.27” on University Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, 'Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis' (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 18th-century calf; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; sprinkled red-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark. Size: 297 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 289 x 209 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations (mainly extracting keywords) in black ink in gatherings F and b in a 16th-century hand - the same hand has annotated the other two works in this volume; vertical pair of triangles in ink (hourglass symbol?) on rear free endpaper; pencil number “121” on front flyleaf; pencil number “239” on University Library bookplate. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
