Strabo: Geographia, libri XVI.
Translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tifernas. Edited by Antonius Mancinellus.
[Venice]: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 24 Apr. 1494.
Fol. [*]8 [†]8 a-r6 ſ6 s-z6 &6. [17], ii-cl leaves. Gathering [*] is numbered “i”-“iii”, gathering [†] “v”-“viii” but neither is signed. Leaf [*1] unnumbered, [*2] is numbered “i”, [*3] numbered “ii”, [*4] numbered “iii”; the first leaf of gathering [†] is numbered “v”, [†2] numbered “vi”, [†3] numbered “vii”, [†4] numbered “viii”. Woodcut initial.
ISTC is00797000; Goff S797; BMC V 418; Bod-inc S-328.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bl7-e.1 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | University of Glasgow: shelfmark “AE f1 n3” on [*2r] (leaf [2r]) matching entry in 'Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313); source unknown; shelfmark “B.1.7” on University Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, 'Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis', (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 16th/17th-century vellum; covers apparently re-used since their height is less than the height of the text block and there is a pronounced vertical fold mark running down the entire length of the spine. Size: 267 x 195 mm. Now shelved in a pale grey buckram-covered box. |
| Leaf size: | 277 x 195 mm. |
| Annotations: | Alphabet doodles on [*1v] (leaf [1v]). |
| Decoration: | Seven-line letter “Q” on z3v supplied in brown pen-and-ink, and (on the line above) the letter “D” of “[D]Ecimuſſeptimus” is supplied in brown pen-and-ink. |
| Imperfections: | Top outer corners of early gatherings and upper margins of final gatherings have rodent damage. |
