Cyprianus: Opera.
Edited by Johannes Andreas de Bussis, bishop of Aleria.
[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1471.
Fol. [1-1210 1312 14-1710 1812]. [184] leaves, the last two blank.
ISTC ic01011000; Goff C1011; BMC V 159; Bod-inc C-503; GW 7884.
Contents: Epistolae; Ad Donatum; Ad Demetrianum; De opere et eleemosynis; Ad Fortunatum; De zelo et livore; De bono patientiae; De mortalitate; De habitu virginum; De ecclesiae unitate; De lapsis; De dominica oratione; Quod idola dii non sint; Ad Quirinum adversus Judeos, lib. 1-2. [Pseudo-] Cyprianus: De singularitate clericorum; De montibus Sina et Sion; De revelatione capitis beati Johannis Baptistae.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.19 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible in some gatherings. |
| Provenance: | Unidentified, small oval book stamp (heavily washed out) on 1/1r. Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): lot 40 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M***' (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Peter Molini, for 96 livres; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ar.2.3”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 318 x 223 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 308 x 215 mm. |
| Annotations: | 16th-century marginal annotations (more frequent in the first quarter of the book); a few “nota” marks and pointing hands; foliated in an early hand from 1/3 onwards (many leaf numbers cropped); each epistle in the Tabula numbered with reference to the supplied foliation; epistles starting with “De Marciali & Basilide” (2/2v i.e. f. 12v) and ending with “Ad Demetrianum” (4/2r i.e. f. 32r) have manuscript numbering “Ep. 4” to “Ep. i4”. |
| Decoration: | On 1/3r a seven-line initial “C” is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration defined in crimson, green and blue with white dots, from which a white-vine border extends into the inner margin; other initials supplied in red or blue throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the final blank leaf. |
