Attila flagellum Dei [Italian]

Venice:  Gabriele di Pietro and Filippo di Pietri, 20 Jan. 1472/3.
4to.   [1¹⁰ 2-6⁸].   [50] leaves (the first blank?)
ISTC ia01177500;  Bod-inc A-482 ;  GW 2765.

GIP number:	A108
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.23 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	GW: 48 leaves (without a supplied signature collation);  Bod-inc:  [a-f8].
Variants:	1/2r, line 3:  “... matre ...” as in Bod-inc, not “... madre ...” as in GW;  2/1r (f. 11r), line 1:  “a zente:  E ſi de el confalone ...” as in Bod-inc, not “E ſi de el confalone ...” as in GW.
Provenance:	Anonymous auction sale:  lot 745 in 'A catalogue of a scarce collection of books, in English, French and Italian, being part of a well known library' (London:  Baker & Leigh, 29 April [1771?]). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter for £0.15.0 according to the annotated BL copy of the sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 12(2). University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.6.17”.
Binding:	18th-century calf decorated with random splashes of red and black;  gold-tooled spine;  sprinkled red-edged leaves.   Size:  205 x 148 mm.
Leaf size:	199 x 141 mm.
Annotations:	“dieſemillia” on 3/5v (f. 23v) and on 4/2r (f. 28r) expressed in numerals “ioooo” in the margins;  marginal note in Italian on 6/7v (f. 49v) “Atila vene in Italia del 446”.
Decoration:	Two-line initial “I” on 1/2r supplied in gold on a square ground of green, blue and purple embellished with white tracery, from which there extends into the inner margin a border of gold leaves decorated with black pen-work;  other initials supplied in red or blue throughout;  6/8 (f. 50) is mounted on a plain sheet of paper thereby largely obscuring three pen-and-ink caricatures of Huns(?) which have been drawn on the blank verso of 6/8.
Imperfections:	Wanting the first blank(?) leaf.