Liber de proprietatib[us] reru[m] Bartholomaei anglici
Contributors: Husner, Georg, -1505, printer; Christern, Frederick W., former owner; Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860, former owner
Publisher: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)]
Published: 1491
Place of publication: Strasbourg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Medieval Civilization; Medieval Science
Other titles: Liber de proprietatibus rerum Bartholomaei anglici; Theodore Parker Collection.; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: De proprietatibus rerum
Notes: Imprint derived from colophon (R5 verso): [...] Impressus Argentine anno D[omi]ni. M.cccc.xcj. Finitus altera die post festum sancti Laurentij martyris.

Signatures: píœ a-b́ı c-d́œ éı f-ǵœ h́ı i-ḱœ ĺı m-ńœ óı p-źœ A-Ŕœ (R6=blank)

Chancery folio; printed in double columns (three in the table), a2 recto: 52 lines plus headline, 207 (202) x 139 mm; types: 160 (title, headlines, etc.), 80 (text); initial spaces with guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 142

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B140

Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00140000

cataloged 20190909 jm

condition reviewed 20190910 cl

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.6 FOLIO imperfect: R6 (blank) wanting. Initials rubricated in alternating blue and red. Capital swashes in chapter headings in red throughout. Leaf dimensions: 269 x 191 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.6 FOLIO with bookplate of the BPL Parker bequest. Autograph of Theodore Parker, dated 1856, on front flyleaf recto, with blue ink stamp of F.W. Christern. "Bibliotheca Badenfeldiana" inscribed on title page. BPL embossed stamp on title page and on a1. Early/contemporary marginalia. Acquired via the Parker bequest in 1861.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.6 FOLIO halfbound in ribbon-embossed cloth and blue marbled boards. Spine tooled in gilt. All text block edges stained blue.