Eutropius: Breviarium historiae Romanae.
With continuation by Paulus Diaconus.
Rome: [Georgius Lauer], 20 May 1471.
4to. [18 2-1010 116]. [104] leaves.
ISTC ie00131000; GW M30113; Goff E131; BMC IV 36 (IB. 17452); Bod-inc E-062; CIBN E-113; BSB-Ink E-128.
| GIP number: | E11 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.20 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 2892 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 63 livres 3 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 “K.6.12”. |
| 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; green silk bookmark; binder’s ticket on front flyleaf: “Relié par Derome le Jeune, rue St. Jacques au dessus de St. Benoît, seul possédent l’Etablissem[en]t de déffunt son Pere.” Size: 247 x 188 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 240 x 180 mm. |
| Annotations: | A few marginal annotations in humanist hands (many cropped and washed by binder); very occasional underlining and interlinear corrections. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
