Material Evidence
in Incunabula

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_id: 02144713
_rights:
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  edit: 0
data:
  completeness: 0
  copyFeatures: "Imperfections: wanting t3 (including colophon and printer's device) and the blank leaf t4."
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  electronicReproduction:
    - display: Glasgow Incunabula Project
      note: See the description of this item and digitised pages on the Glasgow Incunabula Project's Website
      url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/incunabula/a-zofauthorsa-j/g5/
  extDataset: []
  generalNotes:
    - "Variant:  t1r, final word of final line in col. 2 reads {34}twynklin{34} as in BM 15th cent's 2nd copy, not {34}twynkin{34} as in BM 15th cent's first copy."
    - 'The first of three works bound together. Bound with: (2) Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodorus: Macrobius Aurelius integer.  Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1519;  (3) Florus, Lucius Annaeus: Epitome rerum Romanarum.  Basel: J. Hervagius, 1532.'
  holdingInstitutionId: GlasgowUL
  holdingsNote: Cn.1.2
  hostItemId: ip01011000
  location:
    point: {}
  otherIdentifier:
    - identifier: G5
      source: ukgip
  paperSizeHeight: 272
  paperSizeWidth: 193
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - dates: 16th century
          name: 'Lyng, William'
          note: Ms. inscription.
          ownerId: 00032412
          type: person
      note: 'William Lyng (16th century): inscription on a1r "Will[iel]m[u]s Lyng hunc possidet Librum" and in a different hand "Will Lyng"'
    - agent:
        - dates: 16th century
          name: 'Prym, John'
          note: Ms. inscription.
          ownerId: 00032832
          type: person
      note: 'John Prym/Prime (16th century): inscription on a1r "Liber Ioh[ann]is Prym"'
    - agent:
        - dates: 16th century
          name: 'Elwyn, Henry'
          note: Ms. inscription.
          ownerId: 00032338
          type: person
      note: 'Henry Elwyn (16th century): inscription on a1r "Henry Elwyn one"'
    - agent:
        - dates: 16th century
          name: 'Senecle, Thomas'
          note: Ms. inscription.
          ownerId: 00033161
          type: person
      note: 'Thomas Senecle (16th century): inscription on a1r "Thomas Senecle deb[et] hunc libru[m]"'
    - agent:
        - dates: 16th century
          name: 'Abbis, Thomas'
          note: Ms. inscription.
          ownerId: 00032770
          type: person
      note: 'Thomas(?) Abbys/Abbis, (16th century): partially read (damaged) inscription on a1r "T[...]s Abbys deb[et] hunc liber [sic]"'
    - agent:
        - dates: 1705-1752
          name: 'Blomefield, Francis'
          note: Armorial bookplate.
          ownerId: 00032793
          type: person
      note: 'Francis Blomefield (1705-1752), topographical historian and Church of England clergyman: armorial bookplate on front pastedown with engraved inscription "Francis Blomefield Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, 1736" and signed "W.H. Toms sculp"'
    - agent:
        - dates: 1697-1771
          name: 'Martin, Thomas'
          note: Ms. autograph.
          ownerId: 00032560
          type: person
      note: "Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary: signature \"Tho: Martin\" on front pastedown, and a list of the contents of the volume in Martin's hand on front free endpaper; no. 4079, priced at £1.11.6, in 'Bibliotheca Martiniana:  a catalogue of the entire library of the late eminent antiquary Mr. Thomas Martin ... Which will begin to be sold ... on Saturday June 5, by Martin Booth and ... John Berry, booksellers ... Norwich ... and continue on sale only two months', [Norwich: 1773]"
    - agent:
        - dates: 1718-1783
          name: 'Hunter, William'
          ownerId: 00033314
          type: person
      note: 'William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown'
    - agent:
        - name: University of Glasgow
          note: Current Owner
          ownerId: 00032865
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-st
      bindingNote: 'Binding: England, 17th-century calf, covers have a blind fillet border and a centre panel formed by blind fillets with ornaments in blind added at its outer corners; title "Promptoriu[m]" written in ink across fore-edge; bunch of grapes watermark on rear flyleaves; rebacked in 19th century - no evidence survives of original spine. Size: 278 x 197 mm.'
      msNote: "Annotations: a few marginal annotations (mainly extracting Latin keywords) in a 16th-century hand in gatherings a-b, and very occasional marginal notes thereafter; on q1v a quotation in a 16th-century hand based on 2 Corinthians 6:3 \"Nemini dantes ullam offensionem ...\"; on q2r an unidentified quotation in the same hand; an annotation in a different 16th-century hand on i6r \"In the name of God and the\"; the entry for \"Pope\" on m5v is deleted in ink; extract from a bookseller's (or auction) catalogue pasted onto front free endpaper \"186 Promptuarium Parvulorum - The Author of this Book was a preaching or Black Frier, his Name was Richard Fraunces;  this is a very rare Book; see Hearne's Langtoft's Chronicle, Vol. 2d, page 624 and 5. printed by Rich. Pynson, 1499\"."
      note: 'University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark "Ah.4.14".'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2648579
          name: Glasgow
    - agent:
        - dates: 16th century
          name: 'Prime, John'
          note: Ms. inscription.
          ownerId: 00032314
          type: person
      note: 'TODO: unmatched provenance name entry -- manual revision necessary'
    - agent:
        - dates: 16th century
          name: 'Abbys, Thomas'
          note: Ms. inscription.
          ownerId: 00032946
          type: person
      note: 'TODO: unmatched provenance name entry -- manual revision necessary'
  segment: Glasgow Incunabula Project
  shelfmark: Sp Coll Hunterian Cn.1.2
meta:
  context:
    - _glu
  history:
    - date: 2021-06-03T12:00:00Z