Gazius, Antonius: Corona florida medicinae, sive De conservatione sanitatis.
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 20 June 1491.
Fol. A6 a8 b-s6 t8 [v2]. [126] leaves (t8, [v]2 blank).
Woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC ig00111000; GW 10563; Goff G111; BMC V 341 (IB. 21010); CIBN G-58; BSB-Ink G-48.
| GIP number: | G14 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.3.16 (see main library entry for this item) |
| 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 “L.2.5”. |
| Binding: | Italy, 18th-century parchment, leather spine label (now lost); manuscript shelfmark(?) “50” on spine; sprinkled blue-edged leaves; front free endpaper has watermark of the letters “A S” surmounted by a Maltese cross and, on a separate line below, the letter “C” in a smaller format. Size: 313 x 213 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 307 x 206 mm. |
| Annotations: | e3 (signed in error “diii”) corrected in ink to “eiij” in an early hand; on recto of front free endpaper an 18th-century pencil price “- 5 -”; on verso of front free endpaper Hunter’s note in ink on the date of compilation of the work. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting t8 and quire [v]. |
