Borro, Gasparino: Trionfi, sonetti, canzoni e laude della Vergine Maria.
Edited by Tomaso da Cremona, Simone dal Castellacio, and Giovanni Battista Boneto. With additions by Alessandro Loda.
Brescia: Angelus Britannicus, 23 Oct. 1498.
4to. π4 a-g8 A-D8 E10. [102] leaves.
ISTC ib01037000; GW 4942; Goff B1037; BMC VII 980 (IA. 31167); Bod-inc B-485; CIBN B-727.
| GIP number: | B100 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.1 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | A1r, line 4: first word reads “ſacro” not “ſacre” as in GW; date in colophon on E10v reads “.Mcccclxxxxviii.” as in GW, not “.Mcccclxxxxviij.” as in BMC. |
| Provenance: | Antoine Benjamin Morin d’Hérouville, Danish Consul General at Naples from 1766 to 1771: lot 1394 at the Morin d’Hérouville sale, London: Leigh & Sotheby, 9 Mar. 1780. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Morin d’Hérouville sale for £1.2.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Morin d’Hérouville sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 13(3). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “O.9.3”. |
| Binding: | Italy, 18th-century parchment; gold-tooled spine; red-edged leaves; decorated paste paper pastedowns; green silk bookmark. Size: 199 x 134 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 190 x 128 mm. |
| Annotations: | Guide-letters omitted by printer supplied in manuscript; early manuscript foliation “1” - “98” (occasionally cropped) beginning at a1r; initials “P.A.L.” in margins of b6r and g1r; on E10v “Emi assibus nescio quot”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the preliminary leaves π2-4. |
