Burtius, Nicolaus: Opusculum musices.
Bologna: Ugo Rugerius, for Benedictus Hectoris, 30 Apr. 1487.
4to. a-h8 i4. [68] leaves (a1 blank).
Woodcuts.
ISTC ib01331000; GW 5796; Goff B1331; BMC VI 807 (IA. 28798), XII 58 (IA. 28798a); Bod-inc B-619; CIBN B-938.
| GIP number: | B124 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll E.c.63 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | With CIBN's corrections of GW's transcriptions of a2r, line 2, and i3v, line 25. |
| Provenance: | Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Knight 25 Feb. 1863 according to Euing’s annotation on front free endpaper “25. 2. 63. Knt” together with his price code “abx/”; Euing’s pencil inventory number “No. 1248” on a2r. Glasgow, Anderson’s College: Euing bequest, 1874; book-plate of Euing Musical Library, Anderson’s College, Glasgow, on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: ownership of Euing Musical Library transferred to University of Glasgow Library in 1936. |
| Binding: | Italy(?), 17th-century parchment; manuscript spine title; covers decorated in the 19th century with a double gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron and ornament at each corner, and with a title in gilt added to the front cover; unicorn watermark on original rear free endpaper; front endpapers replaced in the 19th century. Size: 183 x 142 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 179 x 139 mm. |
| Annotations: | i4r, line 25 “Viperum” corrected in an early hand to “Vipereum”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
