Alphonsus de Corduba: Lumen caeli seu expositio instrumenti astronomici a se excogitati.
Rome: [Johann Besicken], 28 May 1498.
Fol. A8 B6. [14] leaves, the first blank.
Woodcut initials.
ISTC ia00537500; GW 1573; CIBN A-279; BSB-Ink A-449.
| GIP number: | A52 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The second of two incunables bound together. Bound with: Odo Magdunensis, De viribus herbarum carmen. Naples: Arnaldus de Bruxella, 9 May 1477. |
| Provenance: | Pieter Burmann (1714-1778), ‘The Younger’, Professor of Poetry, Amsterdam: lot 298 in the section “Medici & Botanici Graeci & Latini Veteres & Recentiores, in Quarto” in 'Bibliotheca Burmanniana, sive catalogus librorum ... bibliothecae Petri Burmanni Secundi ... quorum publica fiet auctio per S. et J. Luchtmans, die ... 27. Septembris & seqq. diebus 1779,' (Lugduni Batavorum: 1779), p. 53. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Burmann sale for 16fl 10st; Hunter’s purchases are recorded on a bound-in sheet of paper in the Hunterian copy of the Burmann sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Q.6.17). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum book label and bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “X.5.8”. |
| Binding: | 17th/18th-century parchment; faded ink title on spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 238 x 179 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 229 x 169 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Top outer corner of all leaves damaged, with loss of text. |
