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
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 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 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 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
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