Biblia. [Latin]
With the Tabula alphabetica totius Bibliae of Gabriel Brunus.
[Lyons]: François Fradin and Jean Pivard, 23 Dec. 1497.
4to. ⁊8 ↄ8 a8 b6 c-z8 A-Z8 Aa-Bb8 aa-cc8 dd10. [432] leaves (a1, dd10 blank), 18-398 numbered ‘III-CCCLXXXIII’. Format is 4to as BMC and CIBN, not fol. as Goff, Bod-inc, GW, ISTC.
Woodcut initials.
ISTC ib00602000; GW 4279; Goff B602; BMC VIII 333 (IB. 42162); Bod-inc B-310; CIBN B-424.
| GIP number: | B67 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Euing Dw-e.18 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Frederick William Conway (1782-1853), editor of the Dublin Evening Post: lot 371 in Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Frederick Wm. Conway ... which will be sold by auction, by H. Lewis ... on Tuesday, May 30th, 1854, and 24 following days ... (Dublin: 1854). William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s pencil acquisition note on verso of front free endpaper “19 6 54 Conway’s sale Dublin” together with Euing’s pencil shelfmark “V-a-10” and an early Euing inventory number “No 39”. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | England, 19th-century blind-tooled calf; khaki-coloured endpapers; marbled-edged leaves; signs of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Size: 270 x 185 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 261 x 172 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand; several lines in a 16th/17th-century hand ‘de nova religione’ on ↄ8r and on Bb8v; the blank leaf dd10 contains a lengthy two-page annotation relating to the canonical hours, written in English in a different 16th/17th-century hand; brief medical recipe ‘Cym[i]no mellum, for groute [sic]’ in a 16th/17th-century hand on a2r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Worming at beginning and end with some loss of letters. |
