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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. El Libro de Proprietatibus Rerum en Romance. Spanish translation by Vicente de Burgos. Woodcut illustrations on title and in text. [345] (of [346]) leaves; lacks F7. Folio, 301x210 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, backstrip partly detached, book block loose in binding; marginal dampstaining and worming in blank margins at beginning and end, occasional browning, scattered marginalia, title heavily soiled and chipped along edges slightly affecting text on verso, severely oxidized stain in outer portion of approximately the last 30 leaves causing substantial text loss. Branded ownership mark of the Convento de Santa Bárbara (or de San Antonio?) de Puebla (cf. CCMF/BF-12055) on top and bottom edges. sold as is. (Toledo: Gaspar de Ávila for Juan Tomás Fabio, 10 July 1529)
Second edition of the Spanish version first published in 1494. "A condensed encyclopedia of what was then understood by natural science . . . one of the most widely read scientific works of the Middle Ages" (Garrison-Morton), compiled in the 12th century by an English Franciscan and first published in the original Latin circa 1471. Garrison-Morton 91; Sarton II, 586-88; Palau 102874.
