Ficinus, Marsilius: Liber de sole et lumine.
Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 31 Jan. 1493.
4to. a-d8 e4 [f2]. [38] leaves ([f]2 blank).
Woodcut printer's device.
ISTC if00156000; GW 9880; Goff F156; BMC VI 641 (IA. 27214); Bod-inc F-048; CIBN F-72; BSB-Ink F-115.
Includes a catalogue of Ficinus's works by Bindaccius Recasolanus.
| GIP number: | F12 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.37 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Antoine Benjamin Morin d’Hérouville, Danish Consul General at Naples from 1766 to 1771: lot 567 at the Morin d’Hérouville sale, London: Leigh & Sotheby, 9 Mar. 1780. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Morin d’Hérouville sale for £0.4.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Morin d’Hérouville sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 13(3). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and booklabel on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “W.8.7”. |
| Binding: | Italy, 17th/18th-century parchment; gold tooled spine; red-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 207 x 140 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 202 x 136 mm. |
| Annotations: | Early marginal notes in two hands, some washed or cropped; occasional nota marks, underlining and manicules in quires a-c; 16th/17th-century note on [f]1r on a maxim of the Greek poet, Theognis; letter "G" on a1r; number "27" on rear flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf [f]2. |
