Leonicenus, Omnibonus: In Lucanum commentum.
Venice: [Filippo di Pietro], 21 July 1475.
Fol. a-c10 C8 D6 d-k8 l-r10 ſ10 s10 ſſ10 ſt10 ſl12 t-z8 &8 aa-bb8 cc-gg10 hh-ii12 KK12. [372] leaves.
ISTC il00172000; GW M27816; Goff L172; BMC V 219 (IB. 20128); Bod-inc L-095; CIBN L-147; BSB-Ink O-47.
Two copies held by the University of Glasgow.
Copy 1
| GIP number: | L21/2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | KK12r: last word of the colophon reads “Mocenico.” as in BMC copy IB. 20127, not “Mozenico.” as in BMC copy IB. 20128. |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Merula, Georgius, Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis. Treviso: Bartholomaeus Confalonerius, [not before May] 1478 (M30). |
| Provenance: | Byrchyns (16th/17th century): two heavily deleted inscriptions ‘Liber [...] Byrchyns(?)’ on a1r. Morne (16th/17th century): ‘Mr Morne’ on a1r. M. B. (17th century), probable owner: on p5v of the second work in the volume is a pen-and-ink device in the shape of a trefoil on a plinth incorporating the letters ‘M’ and ‘B’ and the motto ‘veritas odit moras’ (Seneca). Leonard Hotchkis (d. 1754), headmaster of Shrewsbury School: armorial bookplate (Franks 15434) on a1r. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.3.1”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century calf; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border; gold-tooled red leather title label on spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves; front and rear flyleaves have watermark letters “G R” surrounded on three sides by foliage and surmounted by a crown, all within a circle. Size: 302 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 291 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in Latin in 16th-century hands in red and in black ink (the same hands appear in the second work in the volume); early marginal annotation in Welsh on a3r; several manicules and nota marks; running book numbers '1-10' on rectos; two 16th-century inscriptions on a1r ‘For the net payme[n]t well & truely to be done of(?) the sayd’ and (partially read) ‘[...] discordia [...] Statius’; early deleted ownership(?) inscription on a1r; code ‘mi’ in ink on front pastedown. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
Copy 2
| GIP number: | L21/1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | KK12r: last word of the colophon reads “Mozenico.” as in BMC copy IB. 20128, not “Mocenico.” as in BMC copy IB. 20127. |
| Provenance: | Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1661 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 20 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Bd.7.4”. |
| 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; turquoise silk bookmark; bunch of grapes watermark on front flyleaf, “MOLEN” watermark on rear flyleaf. Size: 298 x 210 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 290 x 199 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand; copious underlining of text up to u7v, none thereafter. |
| Decoration: | On a3r a seven-line initial “B” is supplied in red with reserved white; paragraph marks in red on a2v and a3r. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
