Colatius, Matthaeus: Responsio de fine oratoris.
Padua: Bernardinus Celerius, 1478.
4to. [110]. [10] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC ic00749500; BSB-Ink C-466; GW 7155.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.19 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The fourth of four incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Benedictus de Nursia, De conservatione sanitatis. Bologna: Dominicus de Lapis, for Sigismundus de Libris, 1477; (2) Samuel, Rabbi, Epistola contra Judaeorum errores. [Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, ca. 1475]; (3) Paulus de Middelburgo, Prognosticon anni 1479. [Bologna: Ugo Rugerius, ca. 1478-79]. |
| 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 “Bd.8.29”. |
| Binding: | England, 20th century. Rebound by Douglas Cockerell and Son, Nov. 1954, in full vellum with black ink spine title, replacing an untooled calf binding; earlier sprinkled red-edging of leaves preserved; binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown. Size: 198 x 145 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 192 x 139 mm. |
| Annotations: | Foliated “i”-“9” in ink from 1/2 to 1/10 in the same hand which foliated the other works in this volume; various (monetary?) numbers written on 1/1r and 1/10v. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
