Livius, Titus: Historiae Romanae decades I, III, IV.
Edited by Johannes Andreas de Bussis, bishop of Aleria. Add: Lucius Annaeus Florus: Epitome decadum XIV.
Milan: Philippus de Lavagnia, 1478.
Fol. Part I: A-B12 C-I10 k10 L-Q10 R6. [170] leaves (A1 blank). Part II: AA-II10 kk10 LL-OO10. [140] leaves. Part III: PP-ZZ10 &&10 ↄ8. [108] leaves.
ISTC il00240000; GW M18494; Goff L240; BMC VI 706 (IC. 26156); Bod-inc L-118; CIBN L-180.
| GIP number: | L28 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bh7-b.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Robert Foulis (1707-1776) & Andrew Foulis (1712-1775), printers and booksellers, Glasgow. University of Glasgow: possibly to be identified with ‘Titi Livii Pars Edit Prima’ purchased from the Foulis brothers, 10 May 1754, and priced at £2.2.0 (see GUA 19575); shelfmark ‘G.6.8’ matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 18th-century speckled calf; red leather title label on spine “LIVII DECAS TERTIA EDIT. VET”; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 396 x 272 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 389 x 268 mm. |
| Annotations: | 15th/early 16th-century marginal annotations on AA1r; title “historia Annibalis” in an 18th-century hand in top margin of AA1r; early inscription in lower margin of OO10r but so water-damaged as to be largely illegible. |
| Decoration: | Fourteen-line initial "I" supplied in red and blue with reserved white on AA1r; similar initials supplied on BB5r, CC10v, EE3v, FF7r, HH1r, II5v, LL1r, MM6r, NN7v. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting parts I and III; damp-stained throughout; heavily wormed at beginning and end. |
