Georgius Bruxellensis: Cursus quaestionum super totam logicam.
Edited by Thomas Bricot.
[Freiburg im Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Fischer), ca. 1494]
Fol. a-g6 h-i4 k-r6 ſ6 s-z6 A-E6. [170] leaves.
ISTC ig00148000; GW 10644; Goff G148; CIBN G-82; BSB-Ink G-86.
The work is entered under Georgius Bruxellensis by Goff, GW and BSB-Ink, though under Thomas Bricot by other authorities (including BMC, Pellechet, Polain, Sack(Freiburg) and Walsh).
Date and printer from Sack(Freiburg) 834, based on type and paper-evidence and rejecting G. Langer's attribution to the Basel printer, Johann Amerbach (Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1968, pp. 119-21). BSB-Ink assigns to [Johann Amerbach, ca. 1492-95]. GW assigns to [Basel: Michael Furter, ca. 1494].
| GIP number: | G22 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Veitch Eg8-a.18 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Christophoros (15th/16th century): partially read inscription on a1r (title-page) “Xph[oros](?) a X[...]”. Unidentified monastic owner (16th/17th century): inscription on verso of front free endpaper “es de S[an]to domjngo. de fray” (perhaps relating to the Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos province, Spain?). Fernão da Serra (18th century): on verso of front free endpaper “de fernão da serra Clerigo natural de boçellas”. John Veitch (1829-1894), Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow: source unknown; number “112” written in blue pencil in top left corner of front pastedown (a numbering common to many books in the Veitch collection and probably an inventory number). |
| Binding: | Spain/Portugal(?), 16th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; covers decorated with fillets to form a centre panel surrounded by three frames; the panel has a reticulated design formed from an interlaced tool, the first frame is undecorated, the middle frame is filled with an interlaced rope-like pattern, and the outer frame is undecorated; two brass catch plates on rear board; remains of two leather straps each attached by three brass studs to front board; title ‘q[uae]stio[ne]s sup[er] tota[m] logica[m]’ written in ink on fore-edge from tail to head; 19th-century square paper label with number ‘30104’ in ink affixed to top spine compartment; title in blind on compartment below; fragment of a circular paper label in bottom spine compartment with ink number beginning ‘80[ ...]’. Size: 304 × 214 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 291 x 208 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations, underlining and nota marks in 16th/17th-century hands; marginal pen-and-ink diagram of a segmented circle on z2v; occasional guide-letters in brown ink; eight lines of verse in Spanish in an 18th-century(?) hand on front free endpaper; seven lines of notes in Latin and Portuguese in an 18th-century(?) hand on E6v; 18th-century(?) shelfmarks (scored through) on front free endpaper; 19th-century price(?) “31/6” in pencil on front pastedown. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
