Collective works: Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum [Greek].

Edited by Marcus Musurus.

Venice:  Aldus Manutius, Romanus, 1499.
4to.  Part I:  *6 α-ε12 [stigma]12 ζ-η8 θ10 ι-τ8 ττ6 υ-ω8 Α-Γ8 Δ4.  [266] leaves (ζ8 blank).  Part II:  α-ε8 ζ-η6 θ-ρ8 σ6.  [138] leaves (σ6 blank).
ISTC ie00064000;  GW 9367;  Goff E64;  BMC V 560 (IA. 24479);  Bod-inc E-022;  CIBN E-53;  BSB-Ink E-86;  Ahmanson-Murphy 30.
Part I dated [29] Mar. 1499;  part II [not before 17 Apr. 1499].

Three copies held by the University of Glasgow.

Copy 1

GIP number: E3/1
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Bl9-g.15, 16 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance: Schirbeck:  cropped signature “(?)Schirbeck [...]” on α1r of part II.
Robert Foulis (1707-1776) & Andrew Foulis (1712-1775), printers and booksellers, Glasgow.
University of Glasgow:  purchased via Professor George Ross from Robert and Andrew Foulis, 26 Dec. 1744, for £1.0.0;  see Glasgow University Archives 32299;  shelfmarks “AQ.5.11’ and ‘AQ.5.12” on book-plates matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791).
Binding: England, 20th-century blind-tooled brown goatskin, new endpapers and flyleaves, replacing an 18th-century mottled calf binding;  restored and rebound May 1967 by Anthony Gardner, whose binder’s note appears on the second front flyleaf of part I.  Size:  210 x 155 mm.
Leaf size: 201 x 143 mm.
Annotations: None.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: Wanting the blank leaf σ6 of part II.

Colophon of part 2 of Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum [Greek]

 

 

Copy 2

GIP number: E3/2
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Bc.2.25, 26 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance: Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar:  Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards;  lot 1516 in 'Bibliotheca Askeviana ...' (London: Baker & Leigh, 1775).
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Askew sale for £2.0.0 according to the annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in the British Library (BL SC5 6*(3)).
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedowns, with former shelfmarks “Aw.6.11” and “Aw.6.12”.
Binding: France, early 18th-century red goatskin;  covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, an ornament at each inner corner;  gold-tooled spine;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves.  Size:  205 x 153 mm.
Leaf size: 195 x 143 mm.
Annotations: Inscription in ink on rear free endpaper of part I “1725 Juillet 16 [...]”;  early 18th-century prices (in livres?) on front flyleaf of part I “L-10-” and on front flyleaf of part II “L-5-”.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: Wanting the blank leaf σ6 of part II.

Colophon of part 1 of Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum [Greek]

Copy 3

GIP number: E3/3
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll  Bb.2.29 (see main library entry for this item)
Note: Part II only.  Signs of a bookplate removed from α1v.
Provenance: Padua, Jesuit College (founded 1542):  inscription (lightly scored through) on α1r “Colleg: Pat: Soc: Jesu”.
Georgios (16th/17th century):  inscription in Greek on α1r “Εν των Γεωργιου του λισγηους(?)";  the same hand is probably responsible for the marginal annotations, foliation/pagination, and the manuscript index described under Annotations.
César de Missy (1703-1775), minister of the French chapel in the Savoy, London (1731-1762);  inscription on α1r “Caesaris De Missy Berolinensis:  Londini:  An.  Dni. 1754”;  lot 1400 in the De Missy sale of 1776.
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased for £0.11.6 according to the annotated British Library copy of the De Missy sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 10(2).
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “At.5.3”.
Binding: 18th-century speckled calf, covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border;  rear flyleaves have a fleur-de-lys watermark and countermark “R W”.  Size:  221 x 162 mm.
Leaf size: 214 x 158 mm.
Annotations: Frequent marginal annotations in Greek;  running headings, consisting of authors' names;  foliated from α2r onwards “2-9” and thereafter irregularly paginated “10-127”, “127-164”, “169-237”, “237-267” (the final page of text unnumbered);  partial manuscript index on third front flyleaf with references to that foliation/pagination;  note (by De Missy?) on α1r “των εισ δυο το πρωτον”;  in the extreme lower inner corner of α1r the word “rel” in ink.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: Wanting part I.

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