Bartholomeu[s] de proprietatib[us] re[rum].
Bartholomaeus Anglicus (13th century)
Category
Books
Date
1495 - 1496
Materials
Measurements
327 x 228 x 90 mm
Place of origin
Westminster
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3006996
Summary
Bibliographic description
[478] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; fol. Running number: 6966. Imperfect: wanting leaves A1 (title leaf), A4-5, A6 (blank), B1-2, B7-8, all of gathering m, oo1-2, and oo5-6. With occasional manuscript marginal notes written in sixteenth-century[?] hands, e.g. leaves q8v, r8r, v7r (sum), y6v, z5r, [con]1r, [con]8r (name "[illegible] Floyde"[?]), A3v (manicule), B1v-B2r, F6v (sum), K3r, M1r, M1v (doodle of a dragon's head), O4v, O6v, T7r (name "Thomas Abney"). Blank leaf bound-in at front, containing on recto manuscript title (eighteenth-century) "Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum printed by Winkin de Worde", and on verso extensive manuscript notes (seventeenth and eighteenth-century hands) in English and Latin on the translator John Trevisa, the author Bartholomaeus Anglicus and other printed editions of the De Proprietatibus Rerum, copied from various sources. Missing text from leaves A4-5, B1-2, B7-8 and gathering m supplied in a manuscript copy written in a seventeenth-century hand on fourteen bound-in blank leaves; missing text from leaves oo1-2 and oo5 supplied in a manuscript copy written in a seventeenth-century hand on three bound-in blank leaves. Missing text from colophon on leaf oo5 supplied in a manuscript copy written in an eighteenth-century hand beneath printed text on oo4v, along with a further note about the papermaker John Tate. Water-staining on some leaves. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions in different hands on front blank leaf: (1) "Liber Thomae Emerson vicariij de Wisbeche infra insulam Eliensem" [i.e. Thomas Emerson (d. 1635), Vicar of Wisbech 1615-30]; (2) "S: Ks or hs" [bookseller's code?]; (3) "Liber Gulielmi Beckett 1715" [i.e. William Beckett (1684-1738), surgeon and antiquarian, Fellow of the Royal Society, member of the Society of Antiquaries, and a friend of William Stukeley]. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled russia leather, diced with a faint lattice of single lines; sewn on five supports; wide border of three double blind fillet frames filled with blind fleur-de-lys roll pattern (inner and outer frame) and blind floral roll pattern (middle frame); gilt hatched and dotted roll pattern at corners of board edges; blind-tooled spine, lettered in gilt 'Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum'; grey endpapers. Front joint repaired with goatskin under leather on spine and board edge. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on verso of front free endpaper: "repaired at Cambridge 1955". Back board loose, held by only one sewing support.
Makers and roles
Bartholomaeus Anglicus (13th century), author John Trevisa (d.1402), translator possibly Bartolomé Glanvilla, author Wynkyn de Worde (c.1456 - c.1535), printer Roger Thorney (ca. 1450-1514), publisher John Tate (d. 1507), paper manufacturer