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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (fl.1230-1250). De proprietatibus rerum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 20 June 1492.
Super-chancery 2° (301 x 212mm). Collation: π4 a-z A-G6 H-I8 (π1r title, π1v author list, π2r tabula, a1r prologue, text, I7v colophon, I8 blank). 199 (of 200, without final blank) leaves. 62 lines and headline, double column. Type: 9:165G, 14:130G, 76G. Initial spaces with guide-letters. (Frayed edges of first quire repaired, a few other marginal repairs, occasional light staining or browning.) Modern purple morocco blindstamped (tiny bit scuffed at extremities), red half morocco slipcase. Provenance: contemporary translations into Spanish of herb names, etc.; Del conuento de Religiosos descalcos de nuestra senora Del Carmen (17th-century inscription on title, occasional marginal annotations); Robert Honeyman IV (bookplate, sale Sotheby's 20 May 1981, no.3179).
This great medieval encyclopedia describing the natural sciences shows its use as an herbal and medical reference work in this copy in the contemporary Spanish translations of names of herbs. With "Bartholomeus" spelled correctly on title. HC *2510; GW 3413; BMC II, 435 (IB. 7423); Goff B-141; Pellechet 1876; IGI 1259; IDL 677; Klebs 149.12.
Super-chancery 2° (301 x 212mm). Collation: π4 a-z A-G6 H-I8 (π1r title, π1v author list, π2r tabula, a1r prologue, text, I7v colophon, I8 blank). 199 (of 200, without final blank) leaves. 62 lines and headline, double column. Type: 9:165G, 14:130G, 76G. Initial spaces with guide-letters. (Frayed edges of first quire repaired, a few other marginal repairs, occasional light staining or browning.) Modern purple morocco blindstamped (tiny bit scuffed at extremities), red half morocco slipcase. Provenance: contemporary translations into Spanish of herb names, etc.; Del conuento de Religiosos descalcos de nuestra senora Del Carmen (17th-century inscription on title, occasional marginal annotations); Robert Honeyman IV (bookplate, sale Sotheby's 20 May 1981, no.3179).
This great medieval encyclopedia describing the natural sciences shows its use as an herbal and medical reference work in this copy in the contemporary Spanish translations of names of herbs. With "Bartholomeus" spelled correctly on title. HC *2510; GW 3413; BMC II, 435 (IB. 7423); Goff B-141; Pellechet 1876; IGI 1259; IDL 677; Klebs 149.12.