Ockam, Guilielmus: Expositio aurea super totam artem veterem Aristotelis.
With: Johannes Baptista Millanus: Epistola Johanni Trechsel. Alexander Mazolus: Disticha Marco Alexandreo de Benevento. Albertus de Saxonia: Quaestiones. Edited by Marcus Alexandreus de Benevento.
Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris [Faelli], 12 July 1496.
Fol. a-y6. [132] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC io00010000; GW 11909; Goff O10; CIBN G-492; BSB-Ink G-503.
| GIP number: | O3 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Veitch Eg8-a.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Pontremoli (Tuscany), Augustinian Convent of Santissima Annunziata: inscription on p5r “Ad vsu[m] Co[n]ue[n]tus s[anc]te Marie ano[n]tiate po[n]tremuli”; repeated in Latin on t4r, and in Italian “Questo libro sie ad uso del co[n]ue[n]to de santa Maria nuntiata de pontremuli” on b2v; partially obliterated ownership inscription in Italian on y5v beginning “Questo libro e d[e]l con[ven]to di [...]”. Andrea de Cassanis (17th/18th century), Italy: inscription on a1r “ex libris Andreae d[e] Cassanis”. John Veitch (1829-1894), Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow: source unknown; details of price in pencil probably in Veitch’s hand on front pastedown “Cost £6-6- (Very rare - 1886)”; number “104” written in blue pencil in top left corner of front pastedown (a numbering common to many books in the Veitch collection and probably an inventory number). University of Glasgow: Veitch collection donation, 1895. |
| Binding: | Italy, 18th-century parchment stained yellow; holes for two ties (both now lost); author’s name and date “1496” written on spine; author’s name in ink on lower edge of text block; rear flyleaf has watermark of a radiant sun; part of an 18th-century legal document in Italian used as rear pastedown. Size: 301 x 207 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 299 x 203 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious marginal annotations in several 16th-century hands; two unread ownership inscriptions on a1r (one obliterated with ink, the other largely erased); 19th-century catalogue(?) number in pencil “156/O” on front pastedown. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
