Floccus, Andreas: De Romanorum magistratibus.
[Venice: Filippo di Pietro, ca. 1475]
4to. [1-48 510]. [42] leaves.
ISTC if00061000; GW 10039; Goff F61; BMC V 218 (IA. 20143); Bod-inc F-070; CIBN F-112.
All incunable editions name the author as Lucius Fenestella; so entered by ISTC, though "in fact by Floccus".
| GIP number: | F16 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.7 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with Aurelius Victor, Sextus [pseudo-], De viris illustribus, Florence: Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli, 1478 (A127). |
| Provenance: | Joannes Roscius (17th century): inscription on 1/1r “ex libris Joannis Roscij”. Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar: Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards; lot 3520 in Bibliotheca Askeviana … (London: Baker & Leigh, 1775). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Askew sale for £3.16.0 according to the annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in Cambridge University Library; price confirmed in the partially annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Mu36-c.8). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.6.22”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated a with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; flyleaves have "Pro Patria Vreyheit" watermark; yellow-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size 189 x 137 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 183 x 130 mm. |
| Annotations: | Two single word early marginal annotations on 2/2v (f. 10v) and 2/3r (f. 11r). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
