Crastonus, Johannes: Lexicon Graeco-latinum.
Add: [Pseudo-] Cyrillus [Johannes Philoponus]: Collectio vocum quae variato accentu mutant significationem. [Pseudo-] Ammonius [Herennius Philo]: De differentia adfinium vocabulorum. Vetus instructio praefectorum militum. With other grammatical tracts, and verses by Scipio Carteromachus and Marcus Musurus [Greek and Latin].
Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Dec. 1497.
Fol. a-i8 κ8 l10 A-K8 L-O10.8 p-r8 ſ6 t8. [244] leaves (t8 blank).
Woodcut initial on O1r.
ISTC ic00960000; GW 7814; Goff C960; BMC V 558 (IB. 24452); Bod-inc C-472; CIBN C-660; BSB-Ink C-691; Ahmanson-Murphy 16.
| GIP number: | C85 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bh.2.21 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | t7v, first line of colophon: “... Manutii, Romani ...” as in BMC, not “... Manutii. Romani ...” as in GW. |
| Note: | Misprinted signatures g4, i3, M1, N4 corrected by hand, the corrections probably made in the printing house - cf CIBN. |
| Note: | Excision at top outer corner of front free endpaper, perhaps to remove an ownership inscription or price. |
| Provenance: | Robert Hoblyn (1710-1756), politician: Bibliotheca Hoblyniana: sive, catalogus librorum, juxta exemplar, quod manu suâ maximâ ex parte descriptum reliquit Robertus Hoblyn ... (Londini: J. Murray, 1769), p. 191; Hoblyn sale, 2 Mar. 1778 onwards; lot 3583 in Bibliotheca Hoblyniana ... (London: Baker & Leigh, 1778); Hoblyn’s shelfmark “P5-2” in ink on front pastedown. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Hoblyn sale for £1.1.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Hoblyn sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 11 (4). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ah.3.10”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century speckled calf; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border and a centre panel formed by a double blind fillet and a blind foliate roll, with a separate foliate tool in blind at the outer corners of the panel; gold-tooled spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 328 x 225 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 316 x 214 mm. |
| Annotations: | 18th-century price code “E/pp/” in ink on front pastedown; evidence of early foliation in arabic numerals on first two leaves. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
