Crescentiis, Petrus de: Ruralia commoda.
[Speyer: Peter Drach, ca. 1490-95]
Fol. A8 B-Q6 R8 S-Z6 a-b6 χ4. [2] iij-Cliij [5] leaves (b6 blank).
ISTC ic00969000; GW 7825; Goff C969; BMC II 499 (IB. 8650); Bod-inc C-482; CIBN C-671.
First three leaves of quire χ numbered but not signed.
Woodcuts.
Dated by GW [ca. 1490-95].
| GIP number: | C89 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-d.7 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Knight 22 June 1860 according to Euing’s pencil annotation with price code on verso of front free endpaper “22.6.60 eb/f Kt”, together with Euing’s pencil inventory number “No. 737” on same page (repeated on A1r) and a superseded inventory number “87”. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | England, 19th-century grained brown goatskin; covers decorated with a border of two blind fillets; gilt spine title; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; brown silk bookmark; binder’s stamp “Eedy Binder 37 Tavistock Sq” on verso of front free endpaper. Size: 293 x 208 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 284 x 194 mm. |
| Annotations: | Reference in pencil to Panzer’s Annales on A1r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
