Polo, Marco: De consuetudinibus et conditionibus orientalium regionum.
Translated by Francesco Pipino.
[Gouda: Gerard Leeu, between 1483 and 11 June 1484]
4to. a-h8 i4 k6. [74] leaves.
ISTC ip00902000; Goff P902; BMC IX 37; Bod-inc P-428.
Dated from HPT II, 418; dated by Goff 1483-85.
Translated into Latin from Italian ('Delle maravigliose cose del mondo').
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The second of two incunabula bound together. Bound with Ludolphus de Suchen, Iter ad Terram Sanctam. [Gouda: Gerard Leeu, between 1483 and 11 June 1484] |
| 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 “At.3.13”. |
| Binding: | Binding: 18th-century mottled calf decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold ornament at each corner; gold-tooled spine; red-edged leaves. Size: 212 x 143 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 205 x 137 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | Ten-line initial “L” on a1r supplied in red and reserved white; other initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlining of chapter headings supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
