Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis (with text).
Venice: Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, 10 Dec. 1481.
Fol. a-n8 o-p6 q4. [120] leaves (a1, q4 blank).
ISTC ib01308000; GW 5767; Goff B1308; BMC V 303 (IB. 21550); BSB-Ink B-1002.
| GIP number: | B123 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-d.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | A fragment of three leaves (q1-3) bound after a different edition of the same text (Venice, Christophorus Arnoldus, [not after 1476]) (B122/2). |
| Provenance: | Dominicans - unidentified house: inscription on q3v “Iste liber i[n]terest fr[atr]e d[ome]nico [conventus] .p. f. in sule [...] ordinis p[rae]d[ica]tor[um]”. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), poet: presented book to Robert Southey; inscription on front pastedown “Robert Southey from Walter Savage Landor Keswick 1824”. Robert Southey (1774-1843), poet laureate: lot 476 “Presentation Copy from W.S. Landor Venetiis, 1481” in Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Robert Southey ... (London: Leigh Sotheby & Co., 1844); circular paper label at foot of spine with lot number in ink “[4]76” lightly scored through and with the number “18” written above. John Petheram (1807-1858), antiquary, publisher and bookseller, London: bought at the Southey sale for £0.12.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Southey sale catalogue reproduced in facsimile in Sale catalogues of libraries of eminent persons, vol. 9, Poets and men of letters, edited ... by Roy Park’ (London: Mansell, 1974), p. 109. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: University of Glasgow: purchased from Petheram 18 May 1846 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note on front pastedown “18.5/46 Peth”; an early Euing inventory number “64” also on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to one of two University Library bookplates on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | Late 18th/early 19th-century half parchment, marbled paper sides; spine not lettered; sprinkled brown-edged leaves. Size: 280 x 210 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 271 x 194 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | A fragment only, consisting of leaves q1-3. |
