Aratus: Phaenomena (translated by Rufius Festus Avienus). 

Add: Dionysius Periegetes: De situ orbis (translated by Avienus). Avienus: Ora maritima. Aratus: Phaenomena (translated by Julius Caesar Germanicus, with commentary). Aratus: Phaenomena (translated by Marcus Tullius Cicero). Quintus Serenus Sammonicus: Liber medicinalis. Edited by Victor Pisanus.

Venice: Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, 25 Oct. 1488.
4to. a¹⁰ b-p⁸. [122] leaves (1, 58, 121, and 122 blank).
ISTC ia01432000; Goff A1432; BMC V 294 (IA. 21262); Bod-inc A-639; GW 3131.

Author heading and title from CIBN (A-495).   ISTC, Bod-inc, GW enter under Avienus.

Shelf-mark:	RCPSG: Bookstore SER.
Variants:	The setting of p6r and p6v follows GW’s main transcription, not GW Anm.
Note:	Signature o1 erased and signature o2 partially erased.
Provenance:	Franciscus Garsianus (16th century): inscription in a humanist hand on p6v “Franciscus Garsianus” followed by abbreviations “.I.” (Iurisperitus) “et C.R.L.” (Canonicus Regularis Lateranensis). Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow: armorial bookplate on front pastedown “Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow” bearing superseded shelfmark in ink “81 d 11” (scored through); a later armorial bookplate of the College on recto of front free endpaper; probably purchased by the College in 1811/1812, since the Faculty minutes for 2 Dec. 1811 show that the Library was granted £80 in addition to its usual budget, for purchasing “a selection of books of the older medical authors” and the minutes for 8 Oct. 1812 note that “a very valuable addition has been made amounting to nearly two hundred and fifty volumes bought in the course of the year with the funds granted by a vote of the Faculty”; source unknown; first appears in 'Catalogue of books in the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow' (Glasgow: 1817).
Binding:	19th-century half calf, marbled paper-covered boards; marbled endpapers; yellow-edged leaves. Size: 209 x 153 mm.
Leaf size:	204 x 148 mm.
Annotations:	None.
Decoration:	None.
Imperfections:	Contains the text of Serenus only, i.e. wanting all before n7; also wanting the final blank leaf p8.