In hoc opere contenta. Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata Musica libris demonstrata quattuor. Epitome i[n] libros arithmeticos diui Seuerini Boetij. Rithmimachie ludus q[ui] [et] pugna nũero[rum] appella[tur]
Jordanus,Nemorarius,-1237.
Le Fèvre, Jacques,approximately 1455-1537?
Shirwood, John,-1494.
Callcott, John Wall,1766-1821.
Lowis, David,active 1496.
Higman, Johann,-1500,printer.
Hopyl, Wolfgang,-1522,printer.
GeorgeI,King of Great Britain,1660-1727,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.269
Pine, John,1690-1756,bookplate designer.Inc.269
Cambridge University Library,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.269
Trautz, Georges,1808-1879,binder.StEdNL: Ry.III.c.17
Yemeniz, Eugène,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.c.17
Scott, John,1830-1903,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.c.17
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,donor.StEdNL: Ry.III.c.17
Ferguson, F. S.(Frederic Sutherland),1878-1967,bookseller.StEdNL: Ry.III.c.17
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge,bookseller.StEdNL: Ry.III.c.17
Bernard Quaritch (Firm),bookseller.StEdNL: Ry.III.c.17
[Paris : Joannes Higmanus et Volgongus Hopilius,
die vicesima secunda Jullij 1496 [22 July 1496]]
The Rithmimachia is sometimes attributed to John Shirwood, Bishop of Durham.
Imprint adapted from colophon.
Signatures: a-i⁸.
In Gothic type.
Colophon makes reference to: David Lauxius [i.e. Lowis] Brytannus Edinburgensis: vbi[que] ex archetypo diligens operis recognitor.
Initials supplied in red and blue.
Goff
Hain
ISTC
Klebs, A.C. Incun. scientifica
Proctor
Stillwell
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Bound in a volume with bookplate by John Pine on front pastedown of George I's gift to Cambridge University Library.
Booklabel of Eugène Yéméniz on verso of front free endpaper. Lot 1116 in Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library of the Late John Scott, Esq. C.B., Halkshill, Largs, Ayrshire, 30 March 1905. Purchased by Quaritch for £68-0-0 and with pencil collation note signed J. S. Ferguson 3. IV. 1905 on recto of back free endpaper. Armorial bookplate of Lord Rosebery on front pastedown. Presented to the Library in 1927 by Lord Rosebery.
In contemporary, blind stamped binding of leather over wooden boards with remains of clasps. Manuscript waste with annotations used as pastedowns.
Crushed crimson morocco gilt stamped in corners of front and back boards with the monogram of Eugène Yéméniz, gilt rolled turn-ins, gilt rolled board edges, gilt edges and marbled endpapers by Trautz-Bausonnet.
Boethius, -524
Mathematics
Music theory
France Paris.