Aristoteles: De animalibus.
Translated by Theodorus Gaza. Edited by Ludovicus Podocatharus.
Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1476.
Fol. a-b10 c-d8 e-k10.8 l-t10 u8 x10 aa-dd10 ee8 ff6. [252] leaves, the first and last blank.
ISTC ia00973000; GW 2350; Goff A973; BMC V 232 (IB. 20287); Bod-inc A-390; CIBN A-521; BSB-Ink A-678.
| GIP number: | A84 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.4 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1099 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769). NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 364 livres. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 150 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “At.1.5”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 304 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 295 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional brief marginal annotations, “nota” marks and underlining in a 16th-century hand. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first and final blank leaves. |
