Venturinus, Franciscus: Rudimenta grammatices.
Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 'hora decima octava' 15 May 1482.
Fol. [*2] a-i8 l-y8 z6 &8 [con]6. [190] leaves.
ISTC iv00123000; GW M49573; Goff V123; BMC VI 637 (IB. 27159); Bod-inc V-060; CIBN V-89.
| GIP number: | V15 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-d.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Dimitrij Petrovich Boutourlin (1763-1829), Count, Russian senator, diplomat and museum director in St Petersburg: “No. 313” in crimson ink on verso of fourth front flyleaf i.e. item 313 in 'Catalogue de la bibliothèque de son exc. M. le Comte D. Boutourlin' (Florence: 1831); item 917 in the sale catalogue, 'Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Comte D. Boutourlin, deuxieme partie' (Paris: Silvestre, 1840). Biblioteca Visnievsciana: bookplate on front pastedown “Biblioteca Visnievsciana” incorporating engraved signature of Michał Wisznievski and engraved seal captioned “Sigillum Principis Prussiar[um] Io. Wissnievscii”. Michał Wiszniewski (1794-1865), Polish philosopher: see above. Thomas Arthur (fl. 1856-1876), bookseller, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Arthur 8 June 1869 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note and price code “8. 6. 69 Arthur ah/f” on front flyleaf (repeated on [*2r]) together with his inventory number “No 4195” and a superseded number “No 130”; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisition inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49).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: | Italy, 19th-century quarter green goatskin, marbled sides; gold-tooled spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves; pink and white silk bookmark; flyleaves have a watermark of a crowned shield with an eagle in chief and a tower in base above the name ‘Giorgo Magnani’, and a countermark ‘Al Masso’. Size: 280 × 209 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 273 x 198 mm. |
| Annotations: | Leaves foliated in a mixture of Arabic and Roman numerals “1” - “100” from [*2r] to o3r (many numbers heavily washed out); traces of inscriptions (ownership?) on [*1r] and [con]6r, all so heavily washed out as to be illegible even under ultraviolet lamp; price(?) “18/6” in pencil on bookplate and code(?) “R/”; bibliographical references to Panzer, La Vallière, Audiffredi and Fossi written in ink on verso of fourth front flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
