Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum.
With Tabula rubricarum by Dominicus Bandinus and Versus by Dominicus Silvester. Add Boccaccio: De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, de nominibus maris.
Reggio Emilia: Bartholomaeus and Laurentius de Bruschis, Bottonus, 6 Oct. 1481.
Fol. π10 a-i10 K10 l10 m14 n-r10 ſ6 t-x10 y-z8 &8 ↄ10 aa6 2aa4 bb-cc10 dd12 ee2 ſt10 ct10 A-C10 D8. [356] leaves. The preliminary quire is numbered but not signed. Quire ee is a single folded sheet inserted between dd11 and dd12.
ISTC ib00751000; GW 4476; Goff B751; BMC VII 1085 (IB. 34006); Bod-inc B-370; CIBN B-543; BSB-Ink B-584.
| GIP number: | B83 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.2.20 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | π1r, col. 1, line 5: "... boccacinm ..." not as BMC "... boccacium ..." (see GW Anm.) |
| Note: | Quire & (&8-1 in GW, Bod-inc and BMC) retains the blank leaf &8. At the foot of a5r is a blind impression of the first two lines of type of a4v. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aw.2.11”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century speckled calf; covers decorated with a border of triple gold fillets and a blind floral roll with a separate foliate tool at each inner corner; marbled endpapers; sprinkled red-edged leaves; rebacked in 19th/20th century. Size: 305 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 294 x 201 mm. |
| Annotations: | 18th-century price in pencil “- 15 -” written below the excised top corner of the front flyleaf (though insufficient evidence to make a connection to Thomas Osborne’s frequent practice of re-pricing his Harleian books, since not found in any of the five volumes of his Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting all after quire ee. |
