Molitoris, Ulricus: De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus.

[Speyer:  Conrad Hist, ca. 1494]
4to.   a-b8 c-d6.   [28] leaves (d6 blank).
Woodcuts. 
ISTC im00796000;  GW M25184;  Goff M796;  BMC III 860 (IA. 8829, formerly IA. 1394);  Bod-inc M-303.

Bod-inc dates [ca. 1495].

GIP number: M52
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Ferguson An-y.33 (see main library entry for this item)
Variant: a1r, line 1 of title:  “... Lanijs ...” not as Bod-inc “... Lamijs ...”.
Provenance: John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow:  acquired by Ferguson 8 Mar. 1880 with his pencil acquisition date on a1r “8 iii 80”;  source unknown.
University of Glasgow:  Ferguson collection purchase, 1921.
Binding: Scotland, 19th-century half black goatskin, marbled paper sides;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves;  binder’s stamp on front free endpaper “MacLehose, Glasgow”.   Size:  209 x 148 mm.
Leaf size: 205 x 141 mm.
Annotations: Occasional brief marginal annotations and nota marks in an early hand.
Decoration: Three-line initial “E” on a2r and four-line initial “U” on c5r supplied in red;  paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red throughout;  occasional underlining in red.
Imperfections: Wanting the blank leaf d6.

 

Woodcut illustration and annotations in Molitoris, Ulricus: De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus