Quaestiones naturales antiquorum philosophorum.

Cologne:  Cornelis de Zierikzee [after 1500?]
4to.   a6 B4.   [10] leaves.
ISTC iq00010000; GW M36751; Goff Q10; BMC I 310 (IA. 5213); Bod-inc Q-004; BSB-Ink Q-6.

GIP number: Q1
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Ferguson Ai-a.26 (see main library entry for this item)
Variant: B4r, final line of colophon:  “... Corueliom ...” not as BMC “... Coruelium ...”.
Bound with: The third of three items bound together.  Bound with (1) Albertus Magnus [pseudo-], De secretis mulierum et virorum.  Strassburg:  Matthias Hupfuff, 1510;  (2) Albertus Magnus [pseudo-], Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam.  [Cologne]:  Cornelis de Zierikzee, [ca. 1506].
Provenance: Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (ca. 1792-1869), magistrate and antiquary, Nancy:  bookplate on front pastedown “Bibliothèque de Mr. Beaupré, Conseiller à la Cour de Nancy”.
Henri Leclerc (early 20th century), bookseller Paris:  sold book to John Ferguson.
John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow:  pencil acquisition note on front pastedown “J Ferguson 4 May 1906”;  note of Ferguson’s supplier on rear pastedown “H Leclerc” together with price code “es/-”.
University of Glasgow:  Ferguson collection purchase, 1921.
Binding: France, 19th-century brown grained goatskin; gilt spine title; red silk bookmark. Size: 203 x 145 mm.
Leaf size: 201 x 136 mm.
Annotations: None.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: None.

 

Variant in colophon of Quaestiones naturales antiquorum philosophorum