Mataratius, Franciscus: De componendis versibus hexametro et pentametro.
Add: Jacobus Sentinus: De quibusdam versibus lyricis. Versus.
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25 Nov. '1468' [i.e. 1482]
4to. a-b8 c-d6. [28] leaves (a1 blank).
Woodcut initials.
ISTC im00347000; GW M21585; Goff M347; BMC V 287 (IA. 20499); Bod-inc M-143; CIBN M-210; BSB-Ink M-245.
The misprinted date 1468 is taken to mean 1482 (see BMC).
| GIP number: | M21 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-e.5 (see main library entry for this item ) |
| Provenance: | Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector: bookstamp “Bibliotheca Heberiana” on front flyleaf; lot 3809 in Bibliotheca Heberiana, Pt. 2 (London: Sotheby, 1834); sold for £0.11.0 according to the priced British Library copy of the Heber sale catalogue (shelfmark RAR 002.092 Heb). Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Knight 18 Apr. 1860 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code on verso of front free endpaper “18.4.60 Knt ai/” together with his inventory number “674” and a superseded inventory number "98"; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49).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 green paper-covered boards, gold-tooled green goatskin spine; marbled endpapers; gauffered gilt-edged leaves. Size: 218 x 160 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 209 x 154 mm. |
| Annotations: | Number “2371” in pencil (lightly scored through) on front free endpaper; price code and date in ink “r/ Nov 48” on rear free endpaper together with another price code "b/b/-" in pencil; slip with a 19th-century bibliographical note pasted onto front free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
