Varro, Marcus Terentius: De lingua latina.
Add: Analogia. Edited by Pomponius Laetus. Preliminaries: Pomponius Laetus: Epistola Bartholomaeo Platinae.
[Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, ca. Dec. 1474]
4to. a10 2a10 b10 d10 e8 f6 g-k8. [86] leaves, 54 and 86 blank.
ISTC iv00096000; GW M49462; Goff V96; BMC V 230 (IA. 20235); Bod-inc V-046; CIBN V-64; BSB-Ink V-57.
Dated ca. Dec. 1474 in CIBN (V-64); dated ca. 1475 by Goff and Bod-inc.
| GIP number: | V12 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-e.27 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Quire e is misbound between b9 and b10. |
| Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing's inventory number “No. 76” in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; source unknown. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | 19th-century green straight-grained goatskin decorated with a single gold fillet, a small gold dot at each corner; gold-tooled spine; khaki-coloured endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; brown silk bookmark. Size: 227 x 164 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 218 x 153 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional underlining and early marginal annotations (mainly extracting keywords) - heavily washed; 19th-century price “£2-2-0” in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; 19th-century note on front flyleaf referring to “the Cracherode copy of this work” and with a reference to William Beloe’s 'Anecdotes of literature and scarce books'; note on a piece of paper loosely inserted referring to other editions in the 'Bibliotheca Spenceriana'. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves f6 (f. 54) and k8 (f. 86); evidence of a removed bookplate on front pastedown beneath the University of Glasgow Library bookplate. |
