Blondus, Flavius: Roma triumphans.
Brescia: Bartholomaeus Vercellensis, 1482.
Fol. π2 a-b10 c-l8 m6 n-o8 p6 q-y8 z4. [182] leaves (π2 blank).
ISTC ib00704000; GW 4425; Goff B704; BMC VII 966 (IB. 31063); Bod-inc B-359; CIBN B-500; BSB-Ink B-555.
| GIP number: | B76 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.3.24 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Unidentified owner: unidentified coat of arms pricked out with a hard point on rear free endpaper. Ebenezer Brown (d.1828), M.D., Inspector General of Hospitals: presented to the Hunterian Library in March 1852 (cf. University of Glasgow Library, Museum records, MR37/14, 15) by Miss Marjory Ettles of Stirling from the library of her late brother-in-law, Dr Ebenezer Brown, a matriculated student in the Greek Class at Glasgow University in 1786 (cf. James Coutts, A history of the University of Glasgow from its foundation in 1451 to 1909, pp. 404-5; W. Innes Addison, The matriculation albums of the University of Glasgow from 1728 to 1858, no. 4573). Marjory Ettles (fl. 1852) of Stirling: see above. University of Glasgow: presented in 1852 (see above); Hunterian Museum bookplate, with former shelfmark “E.1.11” (a later addition to the Hunterian Library with no connection to William Hunter’s original collection). |
| Binding: | Italy(?), 16th/17th-century parchment over paper boards; evidence that the front board is lined on the outside with a leaf from a parchment manuscript; the blank front pastedown has printed text on its verso; rear pastedown has watermark of a goose-like bird within an oval frame; manuscript spine title; edges show traces of decoration. Size: 305 x 208 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 300 x 204 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious 16th-century marginal annotations, manicules and nota marks up to f1r; title on π1 “Blondi Roma Triumphans”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf π2 - stub visible. |
