BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. LIBER DE PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM, 1505.

BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. Liber de proprietatibus rerum. Strassburg, (Georg Husner), 1505.
Folio (about 284x197 mm., binding 295x215 mm.). 257 (of 258) leaves, lacks last blank. Printed in 2 columns, 52 lines. Not rubricated.
Contemporary blindtooled half vellum over wooden boards, partly worn, mebded in the hinges, clasps and fittings of brass, spine in five compartments, manuscript spine title, new endpapers. First 7 leaves jagged in outer margin, first leaf after title torn in upper margin. Some minor foxing and staining. A few old marginal annotations.
VD16 B 522
Georg Husner's first press was active 1473-1479 and his second 1493-1505. After 1500 he printed only 10 books, and the last was the present one.

Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1203–1272), also known as Bartholomew the Englishman and Berthelet, was an early 13th-century Scholastic of Paris, a member of the Franciscan order. He was the author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum ("On the Properties of Things"), dated c.1240, an early forerunner of the encyclopedia and a widely cited book in the Middle Ages. (Wikipedia).

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 15th century to the late 18th century.
His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.

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