Biblia latina.

Venice:  Nicolaus Jenson, 1476.
Fol. a-z10101010 A-L10 M12 N-P10 Q12 R-T10 V-X8.  [470] leaves (a1, H10 blank).
ISTC ib00547000;  GW 4222;  Goff B547;  BMC V 176 (IB. 19695);  Bod-inc B-256;  CIBN B-382;  BSB-Ink B-424.

GIP number: B47
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.2.19 (see main library entry for this item)
Variant: a1r, col.2, lines 1-2: ‘... medos aſſyꝛios par||thos ...’ - cf. CIBN B-382.
Provenance: Frater Mathaeus du Hametz  - i.e. Le Hametz in Pas-de-Calais(?) - (16th/17th century):  inscription on B6v “fr Mathaeus du Hametz”.
Judocus Taeye/Taye (16th/17th century):  name “Taeye” and “Taye” on z10r and on A2r, and inscription “Judocus Taeye [...]” on F2r.
Douai, Recollect Franciscans (dissolved 1791):  inscription on a2r (under ultraviolet light) “FF. Min. Recoll. Duacens.”.
Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 26(?) 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 200 livres. 
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  according to the Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 26r), Hunter, through his agent Jean-Baptiste Dessain, purchased lot 26 (“Biblia sacra fol: 1476”) at the Gaignat sale, which Dessain describes as bound in “M: cit:” i.e. citron goatskin and which he priced at 71 livres 19 sous.   However, there is a discrepancy with the entry for lot 26 in the annotated copy of the printed Gaignat sale catalogue in Glasgow University Library (shelfmark BD17-g.22, 23) where the binding is described as “mar. r.” i.e. red goatskin and the annotated sale price is given as 80 livres 1 sou.
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “N.3.8”.
Binding: France, 18th-century citron goatskin;  covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border;  gold-tooled spine;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves;  blue silk bookmark;  several leaves have substantial 18th-century marginal repairs (e.g. in quires n and x).   Size:  300 x 210 mm.
Leaf size: 290 x 200 mm.
Annotations: Occasional marginal annotations in 16th and 17th-century hands;  occasional underlining and corrections of text and of inaccurate running headings;  alterations in red ink to punctuation on b6r-b8v;  occasional evidence of printed signatures repeated in manuscript in red ink e.g. in quires u and S;  partially read inscription on a5r “Anno 1580 15 octob. (?)receptus”;  17th-century shelfmarks on a2r “Cl: i [C: 6 scored through] F: 3”.
Decoration: Eleven-line initial “F” on a2r supplied in blue with white decoration and set on a rectangular ground of crimson decorated with dull gold;  initials in similar style supplied at the beginning of the separate books of the Old and New Testaments, occasionally with the colours reversed i.e. a crimson initial on a blue background;  other initials at the beginning of chapters supplied in alternate red and blue;  pen-and-ink drawing of a grotesque head in margin of a10v.
Imperfections: Wanting leaf X8 containing the Registrum, and the blank leaves a1 and H10;  lower half of X7 torn with loss of several lines of text.

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