Michael Scotus: Liber physiognomiae.
[Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca. 1495]
4to. a-c8 d-e6. [36] leaves (e6 blank).
ISTC im00562500; GW M23286; IGI 6422.
IGI dates [ca. 1492].
| GIP number: | M45 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Ferguson Al-b.48 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Prince Baldassarre Ludovisi Boncompagni (1821-1894), historian of mathematics and Italian aristocrat: item 146 “Legato in cartone coperto di carta color caffè e latte” in Enrico Narducci, Catalogo di edizioni del secolo XV le quali fanno parte dell' insigne biblioteca appartenuta alla chiara memoria del Principe D. Baldassarre Boncompagni (Roma: 1896); pencil note by John Ferguson on rear pastedown “Boncompagni sale 1381”. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: presumably bought at the Boncompagni sale (1898). University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921. |
| Binding: | Italy, 19th-century buff paper-covered boards; shelf-mark "99 N 63" in red ink on spine; three numbered labels on spine: “9165” (printed), “Nn II. 24.” (printed), “1381” (manuscript). Size: 189 x 132 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 185 x 129 mm. |
| Annotations: | Nota mark on a5v; underlining on a8r; four 19th-century pencil numbers on front pastedown “5914”, “5970”, “4487”, “9165” (the first three scored through). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf e6. |
