Hic liber i[n]titulatur De nug[is] curialiu[m] & vestigiis ph[ilsoph]o[rum] /
John,of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres,-1180.
Brothers of the Common Life,printer.
Williams, Theo.(Theodore),former owner.StEdNL
Stewart, Wheatley & Adlard,bookseller.StEdNL
Thorpe, Thomas,1791-1851,bookseller.StEdNL
Signet Library (Great Britain),former owner.StEdNL
[Brussels : Fratres Vitae Communis,
ca. 1480]
Title from incipit.
Imprint from ISTC.
Also recorded as [between 1479 and 9 June 1481] and [1486]--ISTC.
Signatures (inferred, from BM 15th cent., BSB-Ink): [a-b¹⁰ c¹² d⁴ e-z¹⁰ A¹⁰ B⁸ C⁶].
Blanks: p. [1], [62]-[64], [73]-[74], [499]-[500].
GW records 2 additional blank leaves.
2 columns; Gothic types; 40 lines; capital spaces, with some guide letters.
Rubricated.
ISTC
Goff
Oates
BM 15th cent.,
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books,
BSB-Ink
GW
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
The Dialogus linguae et ventris (p. [493]-[498]) is erroneously attributed here to Johannes Saresberiensis.
From the library of Rev. Theodore Williams. Lot 1680 in the April 1827 sale of his books by Stewart, Wheatley and Adlard where it was bought by Thorpe. Bought from the Signet Library in 1959.
19th-century purple morocco with gilt armorial stamp of Theodore Williams on front and back boards spine with six raised bands forming seven compartments, four of which have gilt stamped title etc., gilt rolled board edges, elaborate and wide gilt tooled turn-ins and gilt edges.
Political science
Education of princes
Belgium Brusels.