Georgius Trapezuntius: Rhetorica. Corrector: Benedictus Brognolus.
Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, [before 13 Feb. 1471]
Fol. [110 2-48 56 6-88 910 10-128 1310 14-198]. [156] leaves (1/1, 19/8 blank).
ISTC ig00157000; GW 10664; Goff G157; BMC V 164 (IB. 19585); Bod-inc G-072; CIBN G-89.
CIBN and GW date [before 13 Feb. 1471]; ISTC and Bod-inc [not before 1472].
| GIP number: | G24 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.2.15 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes frequently visible. |
| Note: | The final blank leaf has been pasted onto the verso of the preceding leaf thereby largely obscuring a full page of manuscript notes in an early hand - perhaps an index? |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1440 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 57 livres 12 sous; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Az.1.3”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 322 x 224 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 313 x 212 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in a humanist hand - many so heavily washed out as to be unreadable; on 1/1r a reference in French to Maittaire’s Annales regarding the date of this edition. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
