Hyginus, C. Julius: Poetica astronomica.
Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter.
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 22 Jan. 1485.
4to. a-g8. [56] leaves. c3 missigned "d3".
Woodcuts; woodcut initials.
ISTC ih00561000; GW 13679; Goff H561; BMC V 289 (IA. 20540); Bod-inc H-252; CIBN H-335; BSB-Ink H-460.
| GIP number: | H48 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-e.32 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | Previously bound up with three other unrelated items with Euing collection shelfmark BG57-b.7: Émile Le Grand, Chansons et contes populaires de Calabrie (Paris: 1870); John Banks, The island queens; or, the death of Mary, Queen of Scotland (London: 1684); The salt-water gazette, Nos 1-19, (Glasgow: 1835). |
| Provenance: | Giulio Clivone (fl. 16th century), of Vicenza, poet: inscription on a2r “Ex libris Julij Cliuonij vincentinj & amicor[um]”. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing's pencil inventory number "66" on a1r; source unknown. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | Rebound c.1963 in University of Glasgow Library in quarter brown goatskin, marbled paper boards, new endpapers; earlier sprinkled red-edging of leaves retained. |
| Leaf size: | 218 x 160 mm. |
| Annotations: | Manuscript correction "Scemma sphericum" to printed caption "Scemmus spherecina" of diagram on a1v, as in other copies, and possibly made in the printing house; nota mark on b3r; monetary calculations in Italian in a 16th-century hand on g8v; early shelfmark ‘G.9.n.6.1’ on a1r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
