Author
Lax, Gaspar, 1487-1560
Title
Proportiones magistri Gasparis Lax Aragonensis de Sarinyena..
Imprint
Venunda[n]tur Parisius : in vico diui Iacobi ab Emundo le feure sub signo crescentis albi vitam degente., Anno D[omi]ni M.d.xv. [1515]
Physical description
[52] p. ; 26 cm (folio)
Note
Date of imprint from colophon on leaf E4r: "Impresse Parisius opera Magistri Nicolai de la barre pro Emundo le feure Anno D[omi]ni M.d.xv. die v[er]o vi. me[n]sis Octobris.".
Note
Signatures: A-C6 D-E4.
Note
Title page has a decorative woodcut border and device of Hémon Le Fèvre.
Note
Woodcut initials.
Citation/references note
CLC, L554
Citation/references note
Adams, L330
Provenance
Pressmark of Seth Ward (1617-1689) on upper endleaf: E:3:68.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
19th-century quarter diced reddish-brown calf, boards covered with parchment; blind roll along vertical edge of the leather; smooth spine with gilt fillets; gilt spine titling; text block edges stained red; parchment manuscript waste used as endleaves; additional 19th-century brown drab endleaves. Instructions to the binder on parchment upper endleaf: "Bind & preserve the MS in the binding".
Copy-specific note
An additional copy of gathering C is bound between gatherings D and E, in the order C1, C2, C4, C3, C5, C6.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: Gaspar Lax, Arithmetica speculativa (1515).
Subject
Arithmetic Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mathematics Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
La Barre, Nicolas de, active 1496-1528 printer.
Added entry--name
Le Fèvre, Hémon, active 1509-1525 publisher.
Added entry--name
Ward, Seth, 1617-1689 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
B20413
UKSbSC
20250820160331.1