Curtius Rufus, Quintus: Historiae Alexandri Magni.
[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, [ca. 1471]
4to. [1-1510 164]. [154] leaves (16/4 blank).
ISTC ic00998000; GW 7871; Goff C998; BMC V 163 (IB. 19578); Bod-inc C-493; CIBN C-683; BSB-Ink C-720.
| GIP number: | C90 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 2870 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 240 livres 9 sous; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen 36, f. 24r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “A.7.22”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 283 x 195 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 274 x 185 mm. |
| Annotations: | On 16/3v (f. 153v) the second word of the metrical part of the colophon has been corrected by pen from “mee” to “meo” - cf. CIBN C-683. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf 16/4. |
