Aristoteles: Ethica ad Nicomachum.
Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.
[Bologna: Ugo Rugerius?, ca. 1475]
4to. [1-910]. [90] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ia00986000; GW 2369; Goff A986; BMC VI 806 (IA. 28598); Bod-inc A-398.
BMC notes: “This tract has been retained under Rugerius, where Proctor placed it ... but it may belong rather to H. Malpiglius.”
| GIP number: | A87 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.27 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Collation follows BMC and Bod-inc, not GW. |
| Provenance: | Venice, Augustinians, S. Salvator: partially read inscription on 1/1v “Iste liber est mon[aster]ij s[anc]tj [word largely erased - Salvatoris(?)] d[e] ven[etiis]. Cuius vsus erat [unread abbreviations] flor / d[e] ven[etiis]”. Gilles de Souvré, marquis de Courtenvaux (c. 1540-1626), maréchal de France: painted coat of arms on 1/1r: d’azur à cinq cotices d’or, above which is written the motto “Vng seul espoir”. Jacques Amelot de Beaulieu (1602-1668), President of the Cour des Aides, Paris: purchased en bloc the library of Gilles de Souvré in 1632; see https://bibliophilie.blogspot.com/2017/01/les-ventes-aux-encheres-de-livres.html Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 833 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 14 livres; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “K.6.14”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 233 x 160 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 226 x 151 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in several 15th/16th-century hands; frequent “nota” marks and manicules; occasional underlining. |
| Decoration: | Five-line initial “O” on 1/1r supplied in pink and purple on a gold square ground, the bowl of the letter filled-in with a flower(?) in pink, purple and green on a dark blue background; the four margins of 1/1r decorated with a floral and foliate border edged with dark blue and gold, and in the lower margin is a painted coat of arms (see Provenance above); other initials and paragraph marks throughout supplied in alternate red and blue. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
