Pelagius, Alvarus: De planctu ecclesiae.
Add: Petrus Dominici: Tabula.
Ulm: Johann Zainer, 26 Oct. 1474.
Fol. [1-910 1012 11-1210 134 146 15-2810 298 3010 318 328 (32/6+1) 33-3810 39-438]. [407] leaves, the first blank. Stub visible between 32/2 and 32/3 (ff. 300 and 301).
Woodcut initials and borders.
ISTC ip00249000; Goff P249; BMC II 523; Bod-inc P-076.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.1.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 42/8v (f. 399v), line 47: “tuageſimoquarto. die ...” not as BMC “tnagesimoquarto. die ...”. |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 688 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 221 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.23v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book-label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ab.1.7”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves (large random splashes of blue visible beneath the gilt); turquoise silk bookmark; remains of tabs visible. Size: 478 x 330 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 463 x 322 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations, pointing hands and “nota” marks in a 15th/16th-century hand in gatherings 6, 7, 24, 25. Very occasional evidence of early signatures. |
| Decoration: | Woodcut initial “P” on 1/2r coloured by hand; woodcut initial “O” together with woodcut border on 1/9r both coloured by hand. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
