Festus, Sextus Pompeius: De verborum significatione. Edited by Manilius Rhallus.
[Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck], 31 Dec. 1477.
Fol. [1-38 4-66 78]. [50] leaves (7/8 blank).
ISTC if00144500; GW 9863; Bod-inc F-034; CIBN F-61.
| GIP number: | F4 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.15 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar: Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards; lot 1746 in Bibliotheca Askeviana … (London: Baker & Leigh, 1775). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Askew sale for £5.5.0 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 “A.7.2”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a gilt-roll border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; yellow-edged leaves; signs of a tab or label removed from 1/2v. Size: 283 x 194 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 278 x 188 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied mainly in blue, less frequently in red; capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf 7/8. |
