Formularium instrumentorum ad usum Curiae Romanae.
Rome: Stephan Plannck, ‘7 Sept.’ 1487.
4to. [1-78 86 9-228 234]. [178] leaves.
ISTC if00259000; GW 10208; Goff F259; BMC IV 87 (IA. 18453); CIBN F-152; BSB-Ink F-212.
Reprinted, with only the year altered in the colophon, from the edition of 1484 (Goff F258).
| GIP number: | F20 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Mu27-e.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Cesare Girardenghi/Girardengho (16th century?): inscription on front free endpaper “Cesaris Girardenghi liber est” scored through in ink. Joseph Vecchius (17th century?): inscription on front free endpaper “Ex libris [...] Joseph Vecchij(?)”. Wilfrid Michael Voynich (1865-1930), bookseller, London: no. 1552, price £3.3.0, in A third catalogue of books offered for sale ... by W.M. Voynich (London: 1901); sold book to David Murray. David Murray (1842-1928), Glasgow lawyer, antiquary and bibliographer: bookplate on front pastedown; Murray’s note of his supplier in pencil on front pastedown “Voynich III 1552” and price paid “£3. 3/-”. University of Glasgow: Murray library donation, 1927. |
| Binding: | 19th-century grey paper covers; remains of a printed label on spine with number “5”; title in ink along lower edge of text block. Size: 209 x 141 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 208 x 140 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations and occasional underlining in an 17th-century(?) hand; initial “W” on front free endpaper followed by an inscription beginning “ex adeptis [remainder heavily deleted]” in turn followed by the title of the work “Formulariu[m] Instrumentor[um] [...] Petri Dom [...] in causis ecclesiasticis”; leaves 2/1-23/4 (ff. 9-178) foliated “1”-“170”; on front pastedown an ink annotation in a 19th-century hand “N 1181 L5.” partially scored through and “No 113” substituted. |
| Decoration: | Occasional initials supplied in brown ink. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
