Alchabitius: Libellus isagogicus.
Translated by Johannes Hispalensis.
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 16 Jan. 1482.
4to. a-d8. [32] leaves.
Woodcut initials; woodcut diagrams.
ISTC ia00362000; GW 843; Goff A362; BMC V 285 (IA. 20511), XII 19 (IA. 20512); CIBN A-196; BSB-Ink A-232.
| GIP number: | A41 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-f.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The third of four incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Regiomontanus, Johannes, Kalendarium. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 9 Aug. 1482; (2) Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera mundi. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July 1482; (4) Abraham ibn Ezra, De luminaribus et diebus criticis. [Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis], 7 Feb. 1482/83. |
| Provenance: | Thomas Arthur (fl. 1856-1876), bookseller, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Arthur 28 Sept. 1866 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price on front pastedown “28 9 66 Arthur £1-11-6”; Euing’s pencil inventory number on a1r “No 3095”; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 19th-century, varnished(?) paper-covered boards with watermark discernible of the sun with a human face (below which are the letters “A” and “C”?), brown calf spine. Size: 198 x 149 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 196 x 142 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious marginal annotations in Latin in two 16th-century hands up to c4r, together with manicules and “nota” marks; annotations added to woodcut diagram on d8v. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
