Tortellius, Johannes: Orthographia.
Edited by Adam Montaltus.
Rome: Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus) and Simon Nicolai Chardella, [after 10 Aug.] 1471.
Fol. [1-210 3-48 510 68 76 8-910 108 1110 128 136 14-1610 178 186 198 2010 218 22-2710 288 2912 30-3210 3312]. [304] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC it00394000; GW M47210; Goff T394; BMC IV 23 (IC. 17281); Bod-inc T-220; CIBN T-291.
| GIP number: | T29 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.1.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Y.6.16”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled parchment, covers decorated with a floral roll border, a floral ornament at each inner corner; gold-tooled spine; edges of leaves marbled in red, green and blue; front and rear free endpapers have a fleur-de-lys watermark within an oval frame. Size: 368 x 270 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 360 x 257 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional brief marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand; very occasional “nota” marks. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting 33/11 (f. 303) containing the Registrum, and the final blank leaf; lower margin of 1/2 excised - probably to remove evidence of ownership - and made good at a later date with a blank strip of paper. |
