Psalterium.
With canticles. Commentary by Gabriel Brebia.
Milan: [Printer of 'Psalterio in Volgare', 1476], 7 July 1477.
8vo. [1-68 7-810 9-398 406 41-428 434]. [342] leaves, 8/6 (f. 64) and 40/6 (f. 322) blank.
ISTC ip01040000; GW M36175; Goff P1040; BMC VI 733 (IA. 26303); Bod-inc P-502; CIBN B-770.
Note: 8vo as in BMC, not 4to as in Bod-inc; signature sequence based on Bod-inc, not BMC; stub of the blank 8/6 (f. 64) visible.
| GIP number: | P96 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Euing Df-b.28 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 1/2v, lines 2-3: “b EATVS Vir: qui non abijt || in conſilio impiorum ...” as in Bod-inc, not as in BMC. |
| Provenance: | Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s pencil inventory number “No 831” on 1/1r; purchased from Knight 13 Nov. 1860 according to Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library MS Euing 49); Euing’s shelfmark “XIX.c.4” in pencil on verso of front free endpaper. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century bind-stamped calf decorated with double fillets and a separate star-shaped tool; marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves; binder’s ticket on verso of front free endpaper “Bound by R. Nelson Glasgow”. Size: 198 x 135 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 190 x 130 mm. |
| Annotations: | On 1/1r “Brebia in psalmos mediolani 1477”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting 5/4.5 and quires 41-43 (containing the author's epistle, the rubrics, and his colophon). |
