Accession number
PML 127095
Creator
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century.
Published
Nuremberg : Friedrich Peypus for Johann Koberger, 13 May 1519.
Credit line
Julia P. Wightman,
Description
[192] leaves : title page border ; 32 cm (fol.)
Notes
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Title within historiated woodcut border by Hans Springinklee; text printed in two columns with ornamental initials.
Title within historiated woodcut border by Hans Springinklee; text printed in two columns with ornamental initials.
Binding
16th-century English brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled roll carrying the elements of wivern, a crowned portcullis, a spray of acorns, and a lion (see Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, tools AN.g(1), no. 563 and B.(3), no. 971, attributed to London
Inscriptions/Markings
Pen trials (leaf G8v). Paw prints from a cat (leaf [1]/1v). Inscription about author, citing 1609 edition printed in Frankfurt am Main by Wolfgang Richter, partially derived from 19th-century French sales catalogue (front pastedown).
Variant title
Opus de rerum proprietatibus
Provenance
Goswyn van Walen (Halen?, 1468-1530), signature (front pastedown); unidentified inscriptions, abraded (leaf [1]/1r); Liessies (France), Benedictines of St. Lambert, inscription: "Liber monasterij Sancti Lamberti Letiensis relictus maiori bibliothecae a pr
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