Liber de proprietatibus rerum / Bartholomei anglici

Accession number: 
PML 79123
Author: 
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century.
Published: 
Strasbourg : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 14 February 1485.
Description: 
[300] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes: 

Title from leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon (leaf T7v): "Explicit liber de p[ro]prietatibus reru[m] editus a fratre Bartholomeo angico ordinis fratrum minorum. Impressus Argentine Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxv [1485]. Finitus in die sancti Valentini [14 February]."
Printed in types 1:160G (headlines), 2*:91aG (text), 3:91bG (small headlines and book titles) of the eponymous Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg, now identified as Georg Husner.
Collation: [1]⁶; a-b⁸ c-y⁶·⁸ z, A-G⁸·⁶ H-K⁶ L-S⁸·⁶ T⁸: 300 leaves, leaf T8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.5 cm.

Binding: 
(Modern?) parchment over wooden boards (30 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plaited leather endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand deocration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; initial on leaf a1r unrealized. Hand annotations: Quire [1] with manuscript signatures a1-3. Manuscript title and shelf mark on fore-edge.

Provenance: 
Unidentified monogram: LB (B nestled in corner of L with a cross at the top of the L ascender) (leaf [1]/1r); Bertrandus, dedication inscription to Jesuit College of Trier, 1566 (leaf [1]/1r) and 1567 (leaf T7v); Trier, Jesuit College, inscription (leaf [1]/1r), given to novitiate, 18 March 1593; unidentified manuscript shelf mark: 63 (fore-edge); Sotheby's, 21 June 1932, to Bühler for £6.10.0; Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 61; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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