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Scriptores historiae Augustae.
Edited by Bonus Accursius.
Contents: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus: Vitae XII Caesarum; Aelius Spartianus: De vita Hadriani; Julius Capitolinus, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Aelius Lampridius, Trabellius Pollio and Flavius Vopiscus: De regum ac imperatorum Romanorum vita; Eutropius and Paulus Diaconus: Historia Romana.
Milan: Philippus de Lavagnia, 1475.
Fol. 2 vols. Part I: A10 B-M8 N-O6; Part II: 2A6 2B-R8 2S10 3A-E8 3F10. [304] leaves. A1, O6, 2A1, 2S10, 3F9, 3F10 are blank leaves.
In two parts, dated: I) 20 July 1475; II) 22 Dec. 1475.
ISTC is00340000; Goff S340; BMC VI 702; Bod-inc S-117.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Ds.2.6-7 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Edward Harley (1689-1741), Lord Harley; from 1724 2nd Earl of Oxford: see Binding. Thomas Osborne (d. 1767), bookseller: purchased all the Harleian printed books; no. 4710-11 in his 'Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae', vol. 1 (London: 1743). Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar: Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards; lot 1932 in 'Bibliotheca Askeviana …' (London: Baker & Leigh, 1775). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Askew sale for £23.10.0 according to the annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Mu36-c.8). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, with former shelfmarks Ag.6.14 and Ag.6.15. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco - identified by J.B. Oldham as a Harleian binding by Chapman or Elliott in his 'Notes on bindings in the Hunterian and general libraries in Glasgow University' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 759, p.12); gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; vol. 1 rebacked. Size: 338 x 237 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 328 x 227 mm. |
| Annotations: | Early marginal annotations (mostly so heavily washed out as to be unreadable) on some leaves e.g. A6r, C6v, E6v, G2v, G7v, 3A1r, 3A1v, 3A2v, 3C3v; two lines of Greek in an early hand inserted on A9v; probable shelfmarks or inventory numbers “232 H-5” and “233 H-5” in an 18th-century hand on free front endpaper of each volume. |
| Decoration: | On A6r a seven-line illuminated initial “A” in red, blue and brown on a gold square ground with floral decoration; from the initial there extends into the inner margin a border of a gold ground decorated with flowers in blue, pink and green; the square ground of the initial and the border are edged with black. A similar six-line illuminated initial “O” on 2B1r of Part II. Numerous illuminated initials throughout, particularly in Part II, mostly decorated with floral motifs but occasionally with a purely geometric pattern. The illuminations appear to be 15th/16th-century north Italian. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf and the final blank leaf of Part I, the first blank leaf and the final two blank leaves of Part II; the signatures are placed far down in the lower right-hand corner of the page and in this copy many have been cropped by the binder. |
