Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi.
Add: Georgius Purbachius: Theoricae novae planetarum. Johannes Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta.
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July 1482.
4to. a-g8 h4. [60] leaves.
Woodcut initials; woodcut diagrams.
ISTC ij00405000; GW M14652; Goff J405; BMC V 286 (IA. 20516); Bod-inc J-181; CIBN J-270; BSB-Ink I-502.
| GIP number: | J22 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-f.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The second of four incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Regiomontanus, Johannes, Kalendarium. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 9 Aug. 1482 (R5); (3) Alchabitius, Libellus isagogicus. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 16 Jan. 1482 (A41); (4) Abraham ibn Ezra, De luminaribus et diebus criticis. [Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis], 7 Feb. 1482/83 (A2). |
| Provenance: | Thomas Arthur (fl. 1856-1876), bookseller, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Arthur 28 Sept. 1866 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price on front pastedown “28 9 66 Arthur £1-11-6”; Euing’s pencil inventory number on a1r “No 3094”; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 19th-century, varnished(?) paper-covered boards with watermark discernible of the sun with a human face (below which are the letters “A” and “C”?), brown calf spine. Size: 198 x 149 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 196 x 142 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in two 16th-century hands in quires a-c, together with frequent manicules and nota marks; brief annotations added to woodcut of Sphaeri mundi (a1v). |
| Decoration: | Some woodcuts coloured by hand in green and/or yellow, and in pale red and yellow. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
