Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, ad Atticum.
Add: Francesco Petrarca: Epistola ad Ciceronem. Cornelius Nepos: Vita Attici.
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1470.
Fol. [1-310 412 5-710 812 9-1110 1212 13-1710 186]. [182] leaves (18/6 blank).
ISTC ic00500000; GW 6859; Goff C500; BMC V 166 (IB. 19603); Bod-inc C-284; CIBN C-336; BSB-Ink C-322.
| GIP number: | C50 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.2.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | This copy has the full colophon on 18/5v (f. 181v) as transcribed by BMC and GW - copies are known with the colophon lacking the two lines of prose stating the contents of the book (cf. GW Anm.). |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Jean Couthier (16th/17th century): inscription on 18/5v (f. 181v) “Jo[hannes] couthier”. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1480 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 90 livres; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.1.7”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled-spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 329 x 236 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 319 x 224 mm. |
| Annotations: | A few marginal annotations, nota marks and underlining in a 15th/16th-century hand in quire 1; traces of numbering of quires in arabic numerals in an early hand in top right-hand corner of first recto (most numbers cropped). |
| Decoration: | Principal initials supplied in red and blue with reserved white; other initials supplied throughout in alternate red and blue; all initials are embellished with a reddish-brown pen-and-ink decoration consisting of several vertical lines with loops and horizontal strokes added; capital strokes in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
