Conradus de Mure: Fabularius, seu Repertorium vocabulorum.
Basel: Berthold Ruppel, [ca. 1475].
Fol. [1-410 512 6-1310 14-158]. [148] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ic00855000; Goff C855; BMC III 715; Bod-inc C-432; GW 7424.
Dated ca. 1475 by BSB-Ink (C-521) and CIBN (C-564); Walsh dates ca. 1473-74 and Goff ca. 1470.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-d.22 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector: bookstamp “Bibliotheca Heberiana” on front flyleaf with Heber’s note “of great rarity”; lot 4995 in 'Bibliotheca Heberiana', Pt. 1 (London: Sotheby, 1834); sold for £0.19.0 according to the priced BL copy of the Heber sale catalogue (shelfmark RAR 002.092 Heb), which also records that Heber himself paid £4.4.0 for the book - the latter price confirmed by Heber’s pencil annotation “4.4.0” on front flyleaf. John Mozley Stark (fl. 1851-1888), bookseller, stationer, printer, and publisher, Hull & London: sold book to William Euing; extract from a bookseller’s catalogue (probably Stark’s) advertising this copy mounted on front pastedown - item 338 priced at £1.15.0. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Stark 28 Mar. 1870 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code on 1/1r “28 3 70 Stark ce/-”; Euing’s inventory number “No 4660” in pencil on 1/1r and on verso of front free endpaper - details confirmed in Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library MS Euing 49); page with Euing’s bibliographical references to this edition mounted onto front free endpaper. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 18th-century calf (rebacked), both covers decorated with a border of double fillets in blind; marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves. Size: 286 x 212 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 280 x 205 mm. |
| Annotations: | ‘equiſitorum’ corrected to ‘exquiſitorum’ on 1/1v, line 1; traces of early signatures on 5/4 and 5/5 (ff. 44 and 45); 19th-century(?) number ‘No 3’ (altered to ‘7’) on 1/1r; ‘1820’ in pencil on front free endpaper and ‘fine copy, rare 2/12/6 (cost the late Mr Heber 4/4/0)’ together with the number ‘No. 732 P’ and the number ‘278’; also on same page a pencil annotation ‘T 31’ and a price code ‘lo/-’; 'R.f.' in pencil on front flyleaf; price code ‘w-i-’ in pencil on rear flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | Principal initials supplied in red with reserved white; smaller initials supplied in red throughout; manuscript guide-letters in brown ink visible throughout; capital strokes in red on 1/1v to initial letters of each line of verse colophon and on 1/7v-2/4r (ff. 7v-14r) to initial letters of each line of the “genealogia”; occasional paragraph marks and line-fillers supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
