Barzizius, Gasparinus: Epistolae.
[Paris: Ulrich Gering, ca. 1485]
4to. a-k8. [80] leaves, the first blank(?).
ISTC ib00263000; GW 3681; Goff B263; BMC VIII 26 (IA. 39165); BSB-Ink B-221.
| GIP number: | B22 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.17 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Costan, France (16th/17th century): "Costan" on k8v. Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 2555 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 50 livres 4 sous; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 26r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ag.9.26”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers. Size: 212 x 137 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 207 x 131 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional manicules, underlining and nota marks. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the (blank?) leaf a1. |
