THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. De proprietatibus rerum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 30 May 1483.
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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. De proprietatibus rerum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 30 May 1483.
Chancery folio, 304 x 210 mm. (12 x 8 1/4 in.), contemporary blind-stamped calf over unbevelled wooden boards, bound at the Benedictine Abbey at Ebersberg in Bavaria, upper cover divided by intersecting fillets into central and peripheral compartments, central panel with large thistle tools and smaller fleur-de-lis tools, side panels with repeated impressions of single- and double-headed eagle tools, at center of upper panel the arms of the Abbey: a boar ascending a slope, the lower cover tooled with intersecting diagonals filled with repeated impressions of the single-headed eagle and thistle tools and a large rosette, spine in three large and two small compartments similarly tooled, vellum pastedown endleaves, author's name written on lower edge, index tabs, cloth slipcase; lacking clasps, some minor restoration, slight worming, two small chips to lower cover, first leaf soiled and gutter repaired, a few minor marginal tears or wormholes, last leaf hinged, occasional mostly marginal spotting or staining, some dampstaining to upper margins.
Collation: [1 6 2 8 3 8 4-6 6 7-39 8.6.6 40 8]. 267 (of 268) leaves, lacking final blank, including preliminary blank, unfoliated and unsigned. Types: 9:165 (headlines and headings), 8:85 (text). Double column, 54 lines and headline. Capital spaces, rubricated: initials, underlinings, and capital strokes supplied in red; a few marginalia by the rubricator. This copy with the first incipit recorded by GW. On the bindery, cf. E. Kyriss, "Die Einbände der Inkunabelsammlung J. R. Abbey in der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek", in Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, VI:1038, no. 3.
H *2505; Proctor 2036, BMC II, 425-6, Pellechet 1873; Polain 504; GW 3409; Goff B-137.
Provenance: Benedictines of Ebersberg, binding as above -- Title and shelf mark(?) inscribed in a contemporary hand on front blank, "duplum" written below in a later hand -- Major John Roland Abbey -- Martin Breslauer, 1970, 101/53 -- Eric Sexton, bookplates (sale, Christie's New York, 8 April 1981, lot 112).
Chancery folio, 304 x 210 mm. (12 x 8 1/4 in.), contemporary blind-stamped calf over unbevelled wooden boards, bound at the Benedictine Abbey at Ebersberg in Bavaria, upper cover divided by intersecting fillets into central and peripheral compartments, central panel with large thistle tools and smaller fleur-de-lis tools, side panels with repeated impressions of single- and double-headed eagle tools, at center of upper panel the arms of the Abbey: a boar ascending a slope, the lower cover tooled with intersecting diagonals filled with repeated impressions of the single-headed eagle and thistle tools and a large rosette, spine in three large and two small compartments similarly tooled, vellum pastedown endleaves, author's name written on lower edge, index tabs, cloth slipcase; lacking clasps, some minor restoration, slight worming, two small chips to lower cover, first leaf soiled and gutter repaired, a few minor marginal tears or wormholes, last leaf hinged, occasional mostly marginal spotting or staining, some dampstaining to upper margins.
Collation: [1 6 2 8 3 8 4-6 6 7-39 8.6.6 40 8]. 267 (of 268) leaves, lacking final blank, including preliminary blank, unfoliated and unsigned. Types: 9:165 (headlines and headings), 8:85 (text). Double column, 54 lines and headline. Capital spaces, rubricated: initials, underlinings, and capital strokes supplied in red; a few marginalia by the rubricator. This copy with the first incipit recorded by GW. On the bindery, cf. E. Kyriss, "Die Einbände der Inkunabelsammlung J. R. Abbey in der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek", in Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, VI:1038, no. 3.
H *2505; Proctor 2036, BMC II, 425-6, Pellechet 1873; Polain 504; GW 3409; Goff B-137.
Provenance: Benedictines of Ebersberg, binding as above -- Title and shelf mark(?) inscribed in a contemporary hand on front blank, "duplum" written below in a later hand -- Major John Roland Abbey -- Martin Breslauer, 1970, 101/53 -- Eric Sexton, bookplates (sale, Christie's New York, 8 April 1981, lot 112).