Varro, Marcus Terentius: De lingua latina.
Add: Analogia. Edited by Pomponius Laetus. Preliminaries: Pomponius Laetus: Epistola Bartholomaeo Platinae.
[Venice: Printer of Basilius, 'De vita solitaria', ca. 1471-72]
4to. [1-410 5-66 7-910]. [82] leaves, the first blank; leaves 21-52 are numbered xi-xxxxii, probably by a stamp.
ISTC iv00095000; GW M49461; Goff V95; BMC V 187 (IB. 24828).
| GIP number: | V11 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.21 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1388 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 36 livres 1 sou; 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 “Ap.3.8”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark. Size: 270 x 197 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 264 x 188 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional underlining in the final quire. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf. |
