Material Evidence
in Incunabula

mei/02012686 2.a.1(3) [02012686]

London, Wellcome Collection (GB) : 2.a.1(3)

ISTC No.ia00255000
AuthorAlbertus Magnus
TitleLiber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam. De mirabilibus mundi
Imprint[Strassburg : Printer of the Breviarium Ratisponense (Georgius de Spira?), about 1479-82]
Format4°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
Subjectmedicine-practical
Keywordsplants; animals; minerals; magic; recipes; collection
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02012686
Holding InstitutionLondon, Wellcome Collection (GB)
Shelfmark2.a.1(3)
Also bound with this copyChiromantia. - [Strassburg : Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger?, after 1500?] [ic00467000] (MEI ID: 02012688)
Alliaco, Petrus de: De impressionibus aeris. Super libros Meteororum Aristotelis. - [Leipzig : Conrad Kachelofen, not after 1493] [ia00478000] (MEI ID: 02012687)
NoteBound with two incunables and three 16th century editions: VD16 K 1625 (Koebel 1531), VD16 K 1672 (Koebel 1522), VD16 L 3052 (Lucianus 1530).
Created by Sabrina Minuzzi
Size of leaves192 × 140 mm
Support material (book)b
SourceF.N.L. Poynter, 'A catalogue of Incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library', London 1954, nr. 12.

Provenance 1501 - 1600

Areae-gx
Time period1501 - 1600
Provenance nameAnonymous [Person; Former Owner] (Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Manuscript notesSeveral latin marginal notes, including German translation of some printed words; on the top titlepage: 'Liber mineralium etiam metalibus tractat'. Other latin marginal notes in a coeval hand, partially trimmed.
Location in BookThroughout
CorrectionsYes
Extraction of keywordsYes
TranslationsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1501 - 1600

Areae-gx
Time period1501 - 1600
Provenance nameFaber, Wolfgang <decanus; Berching>, - 1561 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Religious)
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteThe incunable is part of a miscellaneous volume whose owner wrote on the titlepage of the first work: 'Wolffgangus Faber'.
Binding noteHalf blind-tooled pigskin on oak boards; original clasps. On the fore edge manuscript titles of the six works bound together. Bookmarks: small copper foils on the first leaf of each work.
Binding date16th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
TitlingManuscript
ToolingBlind
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesAcross
GaufferedNo
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
Sourceab

Provenance 1601 - 2000

PlaceMikulov (Geonames ID: 3070720)
Areae-cs
Time period1601 - 2000
Provenance nameBibliothek Alexander Fürst Dietrichstein <Mikulov>, 1679 - 1933 [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Aristocracy) Family library
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteH. Gilhofer & H. Ranschburg, Bibliothek Alexander Fürst Dietrichstein, Schloss Nikolsburg... Versteigerung in Luzern, 21-22 November 1933 (Luzern, 1933), nr. 643.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
Sourceabe

Provenance 1901 -

PlaceLondon
Areae-uk
Time period1901 -
Provenance nameGilhofer & Ranschburg <Vienna, Austria>, 1884 - 1938 [Corporate body; Bookseller] (No characterisation/lay) Branch active in Lucerne, Switzerland
Wellcome Library <London>, 1936 - [Corporate body; Present Owner] (No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteMiscellany bought on 22 Nov. 1933 for 600 Swiss francs, cf. Wellcome 'Accession register', May 1930-June 1947, nr. 66312. Valuation: 36 pounds, 13 schillings, 4 pence.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Price600 Swiss francs
Sourceaf

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2019-11-01 16:03:27

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  02012686

London, Wellcome Collection (GB) : 2.a.1(3)

ISTC No.ia00255000
AuthorAlbertus Magnus
TitleLiber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam. De mirabilibus mundi
Imprint[Strassburg : Printer of the Breviarium Ratisponense (Georgius de Spira?), about 1479-82]
Format4°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
Subjectmedicine-practical
Keywordsplants; animals; minerals; magic; recipes; collection
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02012686
Holding InstitutionLondon, Wellcome Collection (GB)
Shelfmark2.a.1(3)
Also bound with this copyChiromantia. - [Strassburg : Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger?, after 1500?] [ic00467000] (MEI ID: 02012688)
Alliaco, Petrus de: De impressionibus aeris. Super libros Meteororum Aristotelis. - [Leipzig : Conrad Kachelofen, not after 1493] [ia00478000] (MEI ID: 02012687)
NoteBound with two incunables and three 16th century editions: VD16 K 1625 (Koebel 1531), VD16 K 1672 (Koebel 1522), VD16 L 3052 (Lucianus 1530).
Created by Sabrina Minuzzi
Size of leaves192 × 140 mm
Support material (book)b
SourceF.N.L. Poynter, 'A catalogue of Incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library', London 1954, nr. 12.

Provenance 1501 - 1600

Areae-gx
Time period1501 - 1600
Provenance nameAnonymous [Person; Former Owner] (Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Manuscript notesSeveral latin marginal notes, including German translation of some printed words; on the top titlepage: 'Liber mineralium etiam metalibus tractat'. Other latin marginal notes in a coeval hand, partially trimmed.
Location in BookThroughout
CorrectionsYes
Extraction of keywordsYes
TranslationsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1501 - 1600

Areae-gx
Time period1501 - 1600
Provenance nameFaber, Wolfgang <decanus; Berching>, - 1561 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Religious)
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteThe incunable is part of a miscellaneous volume whose owner wrote on the titlepage of the first work: 'Wolffgangus Faber'.
Binding noteHalf blind-tooled pigskin on oak boards; original clasps. On the fore edge manuscript titles of the six works bound together. Bookmarks: small copper foils on the first leaf of each work.
Binding date16th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
TitlingManuscript
ToolingBlind
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesAcross
GaufferedNo
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
Sourceab

Provenance 1601 - 2000

PlaceMikulov (Geonames ID: 3070720)
Areae-cs
Time period1601 - 2000
Provenance nameBibliothek Alexander Fürst Dietrichstein <Mikulov>, 1679 - 1933 [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Aristocracy) Family library
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteH. Gilhofer & H. Ranschburg, Bibliothek Alexander Fürst Dietrichstein, Schloss Nikolsburg... Versteigerung in Luzern, 21-22 November 1933 (Luzern, 1933), nr. 643.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
Sourceabe

Provenance 1901 -

PlaceLondon
Areae-uk
Time period1901 -
Provenance nameGilhofer & Ranschburg <Vienna, Austria>, 1884 - 1938 [Corporate body; Bookseller] (No characterisation/lay) Branch active in Lucerne, Switzerland
Wellcome Library <London>, 1936 - [Corporate body; Present Owner] (No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteMiscellany bought on 22 Nov. 1933 for 600 Swiss francs, cf. Wellcome 'Accession register', May 1930-June 1947, nr. 66312. Valuation: 36 pounds, 13 schillings, 4 pence.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Price600 Swiss francs
Sourceaf

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2019-11-01 16:03:27