Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum [Dutch]. Van den proprieteyten der dinghen.

Haarlem:  Jacob Bellaert, 24 Dec. 1485.
Fol. aa⁶ bb⁴ a-r⁸ ꝛ⁸ ſ⁸ s-t⁸ v⁸ u⁸ w-z⁸ ⁊⁸ 9⁶ ē⁶ A-V⁸ W⁸ X-Y⁸ AA-BB⁸ CC-DD⁶ EE⁸.   [466] leaves, aa1, ē6 and EE8 blank.  aa2 signed “aai”, aa3 “aaij”;  quire t signed “r”;  A2 signed “Ai”, A3 “Aij”, A4 “Aiij”;  Q1 signed “Ni”.
Woodcuts;  woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC ib00142000;  GW 3423;  Goff B142;  BMC IX 102 (IB. 48508);  Bod-inc B-069;  CIBN B-11; BSB-Ink B-100.

GIP number:	B14
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Ferguson Ag-y.9 (see main library entry for this item)
Variant:	EE6v, line 4 of colophon:  “... M.CCCC. eñ lxxxv. ...” as in GW not “... M.CCCC. en lxxxv. ...” as in BMC.
Provenance:	Ellis & Elvey, booksellers, 29 New Bond Street, London:  sold book to John Ferguson. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow:  Ferguson’s pencil acquisition note on front pastedown “John Ferguson London August 1896” with a note of his supplier on rear pastedown “E & E”. University of Glasgow:  Ferguson collection purchase, 1921.
Binding:	17th-century parchment with fore-edge cover extensions;  19th-century gold-tooled brown leather title label added to spine;  19th-century endpapers;  sprinkled red-edged leaves.   Size:  260 x 196 mm.
Leaf size:	251 x 191 mm.
Annotations:	Largely unread (possible provenance) inscription in Dutch containing date 1555 on aa2r;  running book numbers “i”-“xx” added in an early hand, superseded (and sometimes obliterated) by running book numbers in Dutch in the form “tweede boeck” (starting at book 1 and ending at book 10);  occasional 17th-century inscriptions in Dutch e.g. on CC2v;  signature errors in quires t and Q corrected in an early hand;  pagination “1”-“410” added in an 18th-century hand starting at a2v and ending on y7r;  19th-century price code in pencil “ak/n/-” on rear pastedown;  19th-century pencil number “464” and price(?) code “ai ne” on EE7v.
Decoration:	Some initials supplied in brown ink in quires a-n in absence of printed guide-letters;  capital strokes and underlining in red throughout (many capitals also washed in yellow);  a few woodcuts sparsely coloured in red or in yellow;  arms, lightly sketched in ink (quarterly per cross, in first and fourth a bird, in second and third a saltire), added to blank shield of woodcut printer’s device on EE7r.
Imperfections:	Wanting the blank leaves aa1 and EE8.