Diodorus Siculus: Bibliothecae historicae libri VI.
Translated by Poggius Florentinus. Add: Tacitus: Germania.
Bologna: [Balthasar Azoguidus], 1472.
Fol. & 4to. [12 210 3-78 86 9-128 136 148]. [104] leaves (1/1, 2/1, 13/6, 14/7-8 i.e. ff. 1, 3, 96, 103, 104 blank).
ISTC id00210000; GW 8374; Goff D210; BMC VI 799 (IB. 28518); Bod-inc D-069; CIBN D-128.
Collation follows that given in Bod-inc and GW, not as in BMC.
| GIP number: | D12 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.3.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 2/2v (f. 4v), line 19: “PROOEMIVM” as in GW, not “PRO OEMIUM” as in BMC. |
| 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 “O.3.6”. |
| Binding: | Italy(?), 18th-century parchment, red leather spine label; yellow-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; green silk bookmark. Size: 293 x 217 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 284 x 211 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious marginal annotations in two humanist hands in red and black ink, often extracting keywords; traces of early signatures; 2/2-13/5 (ff. 4-95) foliated erroneously in a 17th-century hand; the blank leaf 2/1 (f. 3) contains on its recto a full page of notes in Italian on Diodorus Siculus in an 18th-century hand - drawn from Rollin and Vallemont. |
| Decoration: | Seven-line initial "N" on 2/2r (f. 4) supplied in blue with reserved white; other initials supplied in plain blue or red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting quire 1, the blank 13/6 (f. 96), and quire 14 (ff. 97-104) containing the Germania of Tacitus. |
