Publicius, Jacobus: Artes orandi, epistolandi, memorandi.
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 31 Jan. 1485.
4to. A-G8 H10. [66] leaves, the first blank.
Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
ISTC ip01097000; Goff P1097; BMC V 289; Bod-inc P-537.
Two copies held by the University of Glasgow.
Copy 1
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll S.M. 1435 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Sir William Stirling Maxwell, 9th baronet, (1818-1878), art historian and collector: bookplate printed in red with the monogram “WSM” and the mottoes “Gang forward”, “Poco a poco”, “I am ready” on front pastedown; engraved book label “Emblems Keir” on rear pastedown; Stirling Maxwell shelfmarks “23B” in pencil on rear pastedown and “39.1” and “K.1” on verso of front free endpaper. University of Glasgow: Sir John Stirling Maxwell, 10th baronet, (1866-1956), Sir William's son, bequeathed a portion of the Stirling Maxwell library to the University of Glasgow Library in 1956 (received in 1958). |
| Binding: | England, 19th-century brown morocco decorated with double blind fillets; Sir William Stirling Maxwell’s armorial stamp with mottoes “Gang forward” and “I am ready” in gilt on front cover and his monogram in gilt “WMS” within a shield containing the same mottoes on rear cover; gold-tooled spine title; dark green endpapers; red-edged leaves gilded (the gilding omitted on the fore-edge of leaves E6-G3 in order to distinguish the section of text beginning “Ars scribendi epistolas Iacobi. P.”); binder’s stamp “Leighton, Brewer St” on verso of front free endpaper. Size: 218 x 157 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 213 x 152 mm. |
| Annotations: | Two-page bibliographical note by Sir William Stirling Maxwell tipped-in at front. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf. |
Copy 2
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-f.18 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s inventory number “No 34” in ink on second front flyleaf; purchased from Knight 18 Apr. 1857 according to Euing’s acquisitions inventory (MS Euing 49, item 34); an earlier Euing inventory number “97” in pencil on first front flyleaf. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown (which is pasted over what appears to be a book label). |
| Binding: | England, 19th-century dark brown morocco decorated with blind tooling; gilt spine titling; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 195 x 142 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 189 x 134 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional 16th-century marginal annotations in Latin (cropped by binder); paragraph marks and other text dividers supplied in brown ink on A3r-A5v; occasional pointing hands; note in red ink taken from Dibdin’s 'Bibliotheca Spenceriana' tipped-in at front, on which is added in black ink the price “£8.18.6”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf. |
