Vocabularius ex quo [Latin and German].
[Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, ca. 1493-97]
4to. a8 b6 c-f8.4 g8 h-i6 k8 l4 m6 n-o8 p-y4.8 z4 [et]4 [con]8. [156] leaves, the last blank.
Dated by BSB-Ink; dated ca. 1500 in IBP.
ISTC iv00369200; GW M51076; IBP 5693; BSB-Ink V-320.
Note: Blind impressions of lines of type visible in the lower half of a1.
GIP number: | V36 |
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-e.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
Provenance: | Frater Johannes Hausmann (16th century): ‘Fr[atr]i Johan[n]i Haüsman[n](?)’ on a2r. Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Knight 15 Apr. 1861 for £0.14.0 according to Euing's pencil acquisition note with price “15 4 61 Knt. 14/-” on a1r together with his inventory number “No 1011” on front pastedown; source confirmed in Euing's acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: Euing bequest 1874. |
Binding: | Germany, 16th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; front cover decorated with double and triple fillets to form eight triangular compartments radiating from the centre; rear cover divided by intersecting double fillets to form four lozenge-shaped and eight triangular-shaped compartments; both covers further decorated with three circular stamps (an angel playing a psalterium, a winged bull, and a rosette), a triangular stamp depicting a stag, a floral stamp, and a fleur-de-lys stamp; spine compartments decorated with the rosette and the floral stamp; remains of two brass clasps with chased catch plates on front board; fragment from a parchment manuscript with text in German used to guard final quire; 19th-century endpapers. Size: 219 x 147 mm. |
Leaf size: | 207 x 142 mm. |
Annotations: | Partially deleted inscription on [con]8r “Anno d[omi]ni 1562 [...]”; alphabet in ink in a 16th/17th-century hand on [con]8v; 19th-century lot or catalogue number “272” in pencil on front pastedown and repeated in ink on a circular label at foot of spine. |
Decoration: | Capital strokes in red on a1v-a3r. |
Imperfections: | None. |