Stoeffler, Johannes and Pflaum, Jacob: Almanach nova in annos 1499-1531.
Add: Regiomontanus: In ephemerides commentarium. Erklerung des Nuwen Almanach. Canon de domibus coeli fabricandis. Tabula correctoria.
Ulm: Johann Reger, 13 Feb. 1499.
4to. [1-28 312 410 5-3714 384]. [520] leaves, 17, 32, 33, and 54 blank.
Woodcuts; woodcut initials.
ISTC is00791000; GW M44052; Goff S791; BMC II 542 (IA. 9437); Bod-inc S-324; CIBN S-467; BSB-Ink S-591.
| GIP number: | S55 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.48 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | In this copy 1/8 misbound between 1/5 and 1/6; 2/4 and 2/5 (ff.12 and 13) misbound between 2/7 and 2/8 (ff.15 and 16). |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “A.11.14”. |
| Binding: | England, quarter red goatskin, marbled sides, by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Aug. 1966; replacing an (18th-century?) red goatskin quarter binding, marbled sides; binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown. Size: 176 x 134 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 170 x 130 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional 16th-century marginal, interlinear annotations and corrections of text; frequent underlining and manicules; frequent paragraph marks supplied in black ink. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | A fragment; wanting 1/1 and all after 2/8 (f.16). |
