Mensa philosophica.
[Southern Netherlands? : Printer of the 'Mensa philosophica',
about 1487]
Verso of leaf [pi]1 begins: Incipit tabula in librum qui dicitur mensa philosophica et primo ponuntur tituli primi libri.
Imprint from ISTC.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-h⁸ i-k⁶
With marginal annotations in early hands.
Partially rubricated.
BM 15th cent.,
GW
ISTC
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Cropped ownership inscription in early hand at head of verso of final leaf: Iste liber ad me hic[?] meatus[?] verum istius possessor[em] pertinet. Other names in the form of pen trials below: Richardus; Thomson; Tuise; William; W Twis. Acquried by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century, possibly contemporary with the conjectured binding date.
19th-century red leather with 3 gilt rolled fillets forming a border with floral corner pieces on front and back boards gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled endpapers. Flyleaves bear watermark date 18[??], presumed to be a date in the teens or twenties.
Philosophy
Netherlands.