Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum.
With Tabula rubricarum by Dominicus Bandinus and Versus by Dominicus Silvester and by Raphael Zovenzonius.
Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Fol. [1-1210 1312 14-1810 196 20-2210 23-258 26-2910 3012 (30/11+χ1.2)]. [296] leaves (25/8, 30/12 i.e. ff. 242, 296 blank).
ISTC ib00749000; GW 4475; Goff B749; BMC V 162 (IB. 19555); Bod-inc B-369; CIBN B-542; BSB-Ink B-583.
| GIP number: | B82 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.1.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | Variant setting of quires 2-6 as in GW Anm. |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Boccaccio, Giovanni, De montibus, silvis, fontibus. Venice: [Vindelinus de Spira], 13 Jan. 1473 (B79). |
| Provenance: | Unidentified ecclesiastical owner: armorial bookstamp on 8/7r (f. 75r) of second item in volume - a shield bearing three lions rampant and a sceptre(?), surmounted by a mitre and crosier. Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): arms in gilt on both covers (Olivier 740); lot 391 in Guillaume de Bure, Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M*** (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Peter Molini, for 110 livres; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers, H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ag.6.5”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century gold-tooled blue goatskin; covers decorated with a wide foliate-roll border, with an ornament at each inner corner and with the Brancas de Lauraguais arms in gilt in the centre; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark; parchment tab on 27/7 (f. 259). Size: 341 x 245 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 333 x 234 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in a 15th/16th-century hand, mainly extracting keywords; occasional interlinear corrections; occasional nota marks; early manuscript signatures “a”-“gg”, a sequence which is continued in the second item in the volume (“hh”-“pp”). |
| Decoration: | Principal initials supplied in red and blue with reserved white; other initials supplied in alternate red and blue throughout (occasionally with reserved white); underlining in red; paragraph marks in alternate red and blue; initial strokes in red throughout; running book numbers “ij”-“xv” in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
