Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam.
Add: De mirabilibus mundi.
[Paris: Antoine Caillaut, ca. 1492]
4to. a-c8. [24] leaves.
Woodcut device.
ISTC ia00259500; GW 649; BMC VIII 52 (IA. 39554).
Date from ISTC; GW dates ca. 1490.
GIP number: | A23 |
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Ferguson Ai-a.27 (see main library entry for this item) |
Provenance: | Georges Diemert (early 19th-century), installed as curé of the Église Saint-Georges, Haguenau, in 1828: book label on front pastedown “Diemert, curé de Saint-Georges à Haguenau”. Jacques Rosenthal (1854-1937), bookseller, Munich: sold book to John Ferguson. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: Ferguson’s acquisition note on front free endpaper “John Ferguson 11 Dec. 1905” and his note of his supplier “J. Rosenthal” on rear free endpaper. University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921. |
Binding: | France(?), 19th-century brown calf; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold star at each corner; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; remains of a silk bookmark. Size: 198 x 135 mm. |
Leaf size: | 192 x 129 mm. |
Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand up to b4r; ink scribbles on a1v and a2r; occasional underlining in black and also in red; occasional manicules; on a1r (title-page) the number “57”. |
Decoration: | None. |
Imperfections: | None. |