Description

Signatures: a⁶ 2a⁸ b-m⁸ n-o⁶ A-M⁸ aa⁶ bb-ee⁸ ff-gg⁶ hh-oo⁸ pp⁴.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on pp4v reads: Feneçe el libro delas propiedades delas cosas trasladado de latin en romançe, por el reuere[n]do padre fray vinçente de burgos. Emprimido en la noble çiudad de tholosa por henrique meyer d[e] aleman[n]a a honor de dios [e] d[e] nuestra señora [e] al prouecho de muchos rudos [e] ynorantes. acabo se enel a[n]no del señor de mil [e] quatro çientos [e] nouenta quatro a diez [e] ocho del mes de setie[m]bre.


Title from 2a1r: Comiença el libro de las propiedades de las cosas.


Half title on 1ar: El libro de propietatibus rerum.


Translated by Vicente de Burgos.


First Spanish edition of this work.


Initial spaces with guide-letters at the beginning of books and in quires aa-gg. Ornamental woodcut initials elsewhere.


The book includes eighteen woodcut illustrations (some repeated) and six woodcut diagrams. There are depictions of angels in heaven with swords and musical instruments, the creation of Adam and Eve, the elements, and the signs of the zodiac alongside months of the year. Several of the woodcuts are of medical interest and include illustrations of an autopsy with a professor of medicine lecturing to his pupils, and a physician visiting an apothecary and a patient. Another woodcut depicts mining and dredging operations. There are also representations of animals and birds, plants and trees, and the ages of man.


Woodcut on a1r depicting the arms of Castile and Aragon.


Woodcut printer's mark on pp4v with the initial M.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00150000.


Indexed in: Hain-Copinger-Reichling 2523; Klebs 152.1; Pellechet 1887; Goff B150.

Features

Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript in several different hands, late fifteenth- to twentieth-century, some cropped.


Several of the woodcut illustrations have been annotated in black ink manuscript.


Several leaf edges have been mended.


Some water damage.


Bindings


Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century binding of full blind-tooled calf over pasteboard by V. Arias of Madrid whose name is gold-tooled at the bottom right-hand corner of the upper cover. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border, frame and central panel of fillets each containing a repeating pattern of roundels with male and female human heads in profile between double-headed birds and ornaments of stylised foliage. At each corner of the border is a lozenge-shaped tool. At each corner of the frame is a circular tool. The spine has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Burgos - El libro De Propietatibus Rerum. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Tholosa 1494. The remaining panels are blind-tooled with a lion surrounded by stylised foliage.The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the curl pattern in pink, yellow, blue and cream. The board edges are gold-tooled with a pattern of diagonal fillets at the
corners and at the junction with the spine. The turn-ins are blind-tooled with parallel hatching. The book has gilt gauffered edges and a green silk ribbon register. Size: 300 x 235mm. Leaf size: 290 x 215mm.

Provenance

At the top right of a7r is a name stamped in purple ink: Julián Mancebo.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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