Sibylla, Bartholomaeus: Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum.
Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 19 Aug. 1499.
4to. A6 B4 C-Z8 AA-GG8 HH6 II-LL8. [264] leaves, the last blank, leaves 11-263 numbered I-CCLIIII, with errors.
Woodcuts.
ISTC is00492000; Goff S492; BMC I 113; Bod-inc S-193; GW 3460.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bi7-h.21 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Gathering CC misbound between gatherings KK and LL. |
| Provenance: | Henry Suthur (16th century): faded and soiled inscription ‘Liber patris he[n]rici (?)suthuri mo[na]chi Lundoranj’ (under ultraviolet lamp) on A1r. Lindores (Newburgh, Fife), Tironensians, BVM: see above. William Monypenny (16th/17th century): inscription on A1v “Per me Guilielmu[m] Monypenny this my hand” and on M8v a cropped inscription “Per me Guilielmum Monnypenny [...]”. Robert Baillie (1602-1662), Church of Scotland minister and Principal of University of Glasgow: signature on A2r “R Baylie”. University of Glasgow: shelfmark “AS f5 n5” on first front flyleaf (repeated on A1r) matching entry in 'Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313); shelfmark “CG.3.6” on University Library bookplate on front pastedown matching entry in A. Arthur, 'Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis', (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 17th-century vellum with fore-edge cover extensions; covers decorated with a blind fillet border; manuscript spine title; evidence of two leather ties (now lost). Size: 190 x 134 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 185 x 133 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations (often extracting keywords) in Latin in a 16th-century hand; occasional “nota” marks and underlining. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf LL8. |
