Crescentiis, Petrus de: Ruralia commoda.
Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 9 Dec. 1474.
Fol. [1-910 1012 11-1910 206]. [198] leaves, the first and last blank.
ISTC ic00966000; Goff C966; BMC IX 137; Bod-inc C-478; GW 7821.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.17 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Note: | 3/4.5 misbound as the outer leaves of gathering 2. |
| Provenance: | Unidentified 16th-century English(?) owner: heavily washed-out and partially deleted 16th-century ownership inscription in lower margin of 1/2r: (under ultraviolet light) “Anno d[omi]ni 1560 inductus fui in vicariam de Regati [i.e. Reigate in Surrey?]” with an unread heavily washed-out inscription in the upper margin, perhaps in the same hand; a similar ownership inscription (also washed-out and partially deleted) on 20/5v (f.197v) "[...] liber [...] vicarij de Regati Anno d[omi]ni 1565". Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1035 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 73 livres 13 sous; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.24r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aa.b.3”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 286 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 276 x 200 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in Latin in 16th-century hands; in book 6 many of the printed Latin names for plants have their English equivalent added in a 16th-century hand; on 10/12v (f.102v) in a 15th/16th-century hand are written the first two verses of the Christmas hymn “Psallimus cantantes Domino nova cantica dantes”; large pointing hand on 13/2v (f.124v); partially deleted and washed-out inscriptions on 20/5v (f.197v); running book numbers “1”-“9”, “x”, “xj”; evidence of early signatures. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in blue throughout with manuscript guide-letters visible in brown ink, except on 1/2 and on 20/2-5 (ff.2 and 194-197) where there are faint traces of initials supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first and final blank leaves. |
