Fichetus, Guillermus: Rhetorica.
Add: Robertus Gaguinus: Panegyricus in auctorem.
[Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, July 1471]
4to. [14 2-78 810 910 (9/10+χ1) 10-138 1410 158 (±15/7) 168 (16/7+χ1) 17-208 218 (21/2+χ1, 21/3+χ1) 228 238 (23/2+χ1)]. [191] leaves.
Collation follows that given in CIBN F-65.
ISTC if00147000; GW 9870; Goff F147; BMC VIII 3 (IA. 39009); CIBN F-65.
| GIP number: | F7 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.19 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 1/4v, line 18: " ... Ficheteæ", as BMC, not " ... Ficheteae" as Sack(Freiburg) 1441. |
| Note: | The top margins of all leaves in quires 1-2 appear at some point to have been excessively trimmed and have been remargined; text of final leaf mounted. |
| Note: | The final leaf of quire 23, comprising eleven lines of text, is mounted on paper with vertical chain lines and with a watermark of a fleur-de-lys above a cartouche enclosing the letters “A” and “R” separated by a heart. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ay.5.15”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; green silk bookmark; first front flyleaf has watermark “I MAURENSANE || LIMOSIN FIN”. Size: 215 x 148 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 208 x 142 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional corrections of text in an early hand; number “1137” in ink in an 18th-century hand on verso of front free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | A four-line initial “Q” on 1/1r is supplied in red and blue with reserved white and embellished with red and blue pen-work decoration which extends into the inner margin (all heavily washed); a similarly decorated four-line initial “A” is supplied on 2/1r (f. 5r); other initials supplied in red (occasionally in blue) together with paragraph marks in red or blue in quires 1-7; thereafter only guide-letters in brown ink are present. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting 16/χ1. |
