Díaz, Manuel: Llibre de menescalia [Spanish]. Libro de albeyteria.
Translated by Martín Martínez de Ampiés.
Valladolid: Juan de Burgos, 30 Sept. 1500.
4to. a-o8 p-q6 A8. [I], II-CXXIIII, [8] leaves (A8 blank).
Woodcuts.
ISTC id00168300; GW 8289.
| GIP number: | D9 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.1 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Juan de la Viega (17th/18th century): “a Juan de la Vjega” written twice on a1r (title-page). Antoine Benjamin Morin d’Hérouville, Danish Consul General at Naples from 1766 to 1771: lot 1549 at the Morin d’Hérouville sale, London: Leigh & Sotheby, 9 Mar. 1780. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Morin d’Hérouville sale for £0.7.6 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Morin d’Hérouville sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 13(3). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “W.6.17”. |
| Binding: | Italy (?), 18th-century parchment; “Diaz de Albey” and date “1499” gold-tooled on spine and washed with colour in imitation of leather labels; decorative paste paper pastedowns; red-edged leaves; green silk bookmark; flyleaves have watermark of an anchor within a circle, below which are the letters "A M". Size: 213 x 148 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 204 x 142 mm. |
| Annotations: | Some marginal scribbles (17th/18th century) in Spanish. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf A8; leaves a1 (title-page) and a2 damaged and repaired, with some loss of letters; worming in leaves a8-c1 with some loss of letters. |
