Festus, Sextus Pompeius: De verborum significatione.
[Venice: Printer of Pomponius Mela, ca. 1478]
Fol. b-h8 i10. [1], II-LXV, [1] leaves (b1, i10 blank).
ISTC if00145000; GW M00865; Goff F145; BMC V 262 (IB. 24850); CIBN N-155 (II); BSB-Ink F-108.
| GIP number: | F5 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | i6r, line 1: “[ ]Ncomiciare ...”, not “iNcomiciare” as in BMC. |
| Bound with: | The second of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Nonius Marcellus, De proprietate latini sermonis. Venice: [Printer of Pomponius Mela], 1478 (N16). The two perhaps issued together - cf. CIBN N-155. |
| Provenance: | Robert Hoblyn, (1710-1756), politician: Hoblyn’s acquisition note ‘19s(α/1744/5 St(?)’ on front free endpaper and his shelfmark ‘X5-15’; Bibliotheca Hoblyniana (Londini: 1769), p. 195; lot 4379 in sale Bibliotheca Hoblyniana ... (London: Baker & Leigh, 1778). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Hoblyn sale for £2.4.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Hoblyn sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 11(4). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.5.6”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century calf, tooled to a two-panel design; the centre panel formed from a triple gold fillet and a blind roll with a floral ornament in gilt at each outer corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; early manuscript title ‘Nonius Marcellus’ on lower edge of text block. Size: 298 × 209 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 288 x 199 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand on b2v, b3v and b4r; missing letter “i” supplied in manuscript at beginning of first line of i6r (see variant note above); on i9v a reference in a 16th-century hand to baldness “Alopetia s[i]g[nifica]t tigná”; on i10r an unfinished ownership note “Iste lib[er] est meus ho”. Letter 'D' in an 18th-century hand on front free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
