Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis.
Add: Paradoxa Stoicorum; Laelius, sive de amicitia; Cato maior, sive de senectute; Somnium Scipionis.
Paris: In vico S. Jacobi (Au Soufflet Vert [Louis Symonel et Socii]), Aug. 1477.
Fol. [1-910 108]. [98] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ic00588000; Goff C588; BMC VIII 17; GW 6931.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.8 (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 on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Au.5.9”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century speckled calf; gold-tooled spine, with William Hunter’s personal binding tool of a hunting horn suspended on cords in bottom compartment; red-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; small slip of paper loosely inserted giving Hunter’s spine lettering instructions to an unknown binder and specifying “Calf Gilt”. Size: 285 x 214 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 278 x 205 mm. |
| Annotations: | A few early marginal and interlinear annotations; traces of early signatures in gatherings 7 and 10. |
| Decoration: | Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout; chapter headings underlined in red throughout; capitals on first three pages washed in yellow or in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting 1/10 and 2/1 (ff.10 and 11). Final blank leaf excised, stub remaining. |
