Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De finibus bonorum et malorum.
[Paris: Au Soufflet Vert (Louis Symonel et Socii), between 1475 and 1479]
Fol. [1-710]. [70] leaves (7/10 blank).
ISTC ic00565500; GW 6886; Goff Suppl. C565a; CIBN C-374.
Dated from the type and the absence of signatures - for further references, see CIBN C-374. Dated [ca. 1475] by GW.
| GIP number: | C39 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.16 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The second of three incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Tusculanae disputationes. Paris: In vico sancti Jacobi [Louis Symonel et Socii (Au Soufflet Vert), between 1475 and 1479] (C59); (3) Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De natura deorum. [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1471 (C42/2). |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1497 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 26 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book-label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aa.5.12”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a six-pointed gold star at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 280 x 195 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 273 x 186 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand (mostly washed out); quires numbered “9”-“15” in pencil in an 18th-century hand in extreme inner top corner of first recto leaf. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Many leaves are brittle and fragmenting. |
