Liber phisionomie /
Scot, Michael,approximately 1175-approximately 1234.
Balsarin, Guillaume,active 1487-1525,printer.
Collegium Societatis Jesu (Paris, France),former owner.StEdNL
text
[Lyon : Guillaume Balsarin,
ca. 1488]
Date of publication from ISTC.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Printer's device with monogram GB on final leaf.
Incipit (head of leaf a2r): [I]ncipit liber phisionomie quem compilauit magister Michael scotus ad [prae]ces d. Federici romanoru[m] imperatoris.
Signatures: a-e⁸.
Leaf a2 signed a3.
Paginated in manuscript from recto of leaf a2 to verso of leaf e6. Ink inscription on the verso of the last leaf: Scientia divina.
Blue label with note by A. W. Pollard June 1912 pasted onto front free endpaper.
ISTC
USTC
BM 15th cent.,
Goff
GW
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Ink inscription at head of recto of leaf a2: Colleg[ium] Parisiens[e] Societ[atis] Jesu. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
19th-century leather with gilt rolled border with gilt tooled corner pieces on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine, gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled endpapers. Rear flyleaf bears watermark date ending 3 so presumably bound circa 1813 or 1823.
Physiognomy
France Lyon.