Biblia latina.
With additions by Menardus Monachus.
Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 Jan. 1480.
Fol. [110 2-108 1110 12-338 348 (34/6+χ1) 35-378 3812 39-548]. [441] leaves (1/1, 50/8 i.e. leaves 1, 409 blank).
Woodcut initials including a nineteen-line historiated initial ‘F’ on 1/2r; woodcut border on 1/4v.
ISTC ib00567000; GW 4242; Goff B567; BMC II 526 (IC. 9185); Bod-inc B-276; CIBN B-396; BSB-Ink B-438.
| GIP number: | B54 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Euing Da-a.13, 14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes occasionally visible. |
| Note: | Bound in two volumes, divided after Job. |
| Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s shelfmarks “VII-x-4” and “VII-x-5” in pencil on front free endpapers; Euing’s early inventory number “No 69” on front flyleaf of first volume; source unknown. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century calf; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; blue silk bookmarks; binder’s ticket “Bound by Carss & Coy. Glasgow” on front free endpapers; binder’s job number(?) “240/10” in pencil on 1/2r and on 23/1r (f. 181r). Size: 396 x 280 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 377 x 264 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations, nota marks and underlining in a 16th-century hand; extract from an unidentified English bookseller’s catalogue (item 102, price deleted) mounted on front flyleaf of first volume. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied throughout in red or blue, occasionally in green, some with marginal flourishes; running headings and chapter headings underlined in red; capital strokes in red in chapter headings; pen-and-ink drawing of an eight-petalled flower on 50/8v (f. 409v). |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf 1/1. |
