Argellata, Petrus de: Chirurgia.
Venice: [Printer of Argellata, 'Chirurgia' (H 1636)], 28 Apr. 1492.
Fol. a-e8 f-u6 x8 y10. [148] leaves, the first blank, 4-141 numbered 4-130, with errors and omissions.
ISTC ia00952000; GW 2322; Goff A952; BMC V 586 (IB. 25125); CIBN A-500; BSB-Ink A-668
| GIP number: | A78 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | r1.6 and r2.5 transposed. |
| 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 “Al.4.9”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century blind-tooled mottled calf; covers decorated with double-fillet border and with a central panel formed by a double fillet, with a floral ornament at each outer corner; green and red marbled-edged leaves; rebacked 19th/20th century in plain calf. Size: 307 x 195 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 300 x 192 mm. |
| Annotations: | Early marginal annotations in Latin in red ink on a2r; marginal annotation in English in a 17th-century hand in black ink in “De curatione fluxus sanguinis” on d2r; marginal annotations in Latin in a 16th-century hand in black ink in “Tractatus de ulceribus" on d3, in "De vulneribus capitis” on l3v, and in "De ulceribus inguinis" on o2v-o3r; frequent keywords added in margins of Tabula (y8-10); occasional underlining; faulty printed foliation corrected by hand and folio numbers omitted by printer added; 18th-century price “-7-6” in pencil on front flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
