| Description |
[320] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.) |
| Note |
Signatures: a⁶ ²a⁸ b-m⁸ n-o⁶ A-M⁸ 2a⁶ 2b-e⁸ 2f-g⁶ 2h-o⁸ 2p⁴. |
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Imprint details from colophon on 2p4v which is followed by a woodcut printer's device. Full colophon reads: Feneçe el libro delas propiedades delas cosas trasladado de latin en romançe, por el reuere[n]do padre fray vinçente de burgos. Emprimido en la noble çiudad de tholosa por henrique meyer d[e] aleman[n]a a honor de dios & d[e] nuestra señora & al prouecho de muchos rudos & ynorantes. acabo se enel a[n]no del señor de mil & quatro çientos & nouenta quatro a diez & ocho del mes de setie[m]bre. |
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Translated by Vicente de Burgos -- see colophon. |
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With table of contents: a2r-a6r. |
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Initial spaces with guide letters at beginning of books and in quires 2a-g; woodcut initials elsewhere. |
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18 woodcut illustrations (some repeated) and 6 woodcut diagrams. |
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"The woodcut above the title ... represents the arms of Castile and Aragon. There are seventeen other cuts, prefixed to books ii-xvii and xix, that of a herdsman and flocks prefixed to book x being repeated before book xiv but being appropriate to neither ... If they derive from the cuts in the French version published at Lyons by Mathias Huss in 1485 and 1491/2, they are very freely treated; it has not been possible to determine their relation, if any, to those in the edition of Vérard, Paris, about 1493 ... There are also geometrical diagrams on 25b and optical diagrams on 30a" -- BM 15th cent. |
| Indexed In: |
Catalogue of 15th cent. printed books in Glasgow (GIP), B16 |
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ISTC, ib00150000 |
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Goff, B150 |
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BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 360 |
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Bodleian 15th cent., B-070 |
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GW, 3424 |
| Local Note |
Variant: ²a1r, line 1: "Comienca ..." not "Comiença ..." as in BM 15th cent. and GW. |
| Collection |
Ferguson. |
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Glasgow Incunabula Project |
| Provenance |
Vachiller, 16th century. Ms. inscription.
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Sanctullano, 18th-century. Ms. inscription.
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Sepúlveda, 18th century. Ms. inscription.
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Quaritch, Bernard, bookseller, 1819-1899. Sold book to John Ferguson.
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Ferguson, John, 1837-1916. Ms. acquisition notes.
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| Place & Date |
Toulouse 1494
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| Printer/Binder |
Mayer, Henricus, active 1484-1500.
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| Copy specific |
Provenance: Vachiller/Bachiller (16th century): inscription "Vachiller [...]" on 2p4v. Sanctullano (18th-century): inscription on 2p4v "Compro este libro al licenc[ia]do sepulueda y costo me catorce Reales [...] sanctullano [...]". Sepúlveda (18th century): see above. Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), bookseller, London. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: Ferguson's pencil acquisition note on front pastedown "John Ferguson 27 January 1899 BQ". University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921. |
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Binding: 19th-century marbled paper-covered boards, gold-tooled calf spine with red leather title label; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 312 x 242 mm. |
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Leaf size: 302 x 231 mm. |
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Annotations: occasional marginal annotations in Spanish in a 17th-century hand (profuse on 2b7r "Del elebor"); occasional underlining, "nota" marks and pointing hands; 19th-century pencil numbers on front pastedown "1498" and "31494"; 19th-century price code in pencil on rear pastedown "£Of". |
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Decoration: calligraphic nine-line initial "P" supplied in brown ink on A1r; calligraphic three-line initial "E" supplied on 2c3v; faded drawing in brown ink on a1r (title-page) of a dog pursuing a duck; marginal drawing of two hens on F3v; woodcut printer's device on 2p4v crudely decorated in brown ink. |
| Library Class |
Sp Coll Ferguson Ag-y.22
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| Subject |
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
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Science, Medieval -- Early works to 1800.
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Civilization, Medieval -- Early works to 1800.
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| Other Author |
Burgos, Vicente de.
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| Note |
Incipit title at head of ²a1r : Comienca el libro delas propiedades delas cosas
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| Alt Title |
Libro de las propiedades de las cosas
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