Caesar, Gaius Julius: Commentarii.
Edited by Petrus Justinus Philelphus. Add: Raimundus Marlianus: Index commentariorum C. Julii Caesaris.
[Milan]: Antonius Zarotus, 10 Feb. 1477.
Fol. a-g8 h10 i-s8 A-B8 C6. [168] leaves, s8 blank.
ISTC ic00019000; Goff C19; BMC VI 714 (IB. 25973); Bod-inc C-007; GW 5866; CIBN C-7; BSB-Ink C-25.
| GIP number: | C2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.2.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Two printer’s pin holes visible throughout, regularly positioned towards the top and lower edges of the outer margin. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aw.1.9”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled red sheep; covers tooled to a four panel design using triple and double fillets, two rolls and three different ornaments; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 325 x 233 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 316 x 226 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations in 16th-century hands from a2r-b2v with occasional interlinear corrections in the same section; leaves a2-b4 foliated in a 17th-century hand “1”-“11” and the same leaves have a running heading “Liber” (versos) and “.1.” (rectos) - except for b4r which is numbered “ij.”; 17th-century ownership inscription almost completely excised at top margin of a2r; inventory number or shelfmark “His. Rom 256” in ink in an 18th-century hand on first front flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting a1, the blank leaf s8, and quires A-B8 C6 i.e. the Index of Marlianus; stubs of all missing leaves visible – showing they were removed after the present binding. |
