Gellius, Aulus: Noctes Atticae.
Venice: Andreas de Paltasichis, 1477.
Fol. a10 b-x8 y-z6 A-B8. [198] leaves (a1 blank).
ISTC ig00121000; GW 10596; Goff G121; BMC V 251 (IB. 20609); Bod-inc G-057; CIBN G-65; BSB-Ink G-64.
| GIP number: | G17 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-d.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Quires A and B (Table of contents) bound at the beginning before quire a. |
| Provenance: | William George Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), 6th Duke of Devonshire: inscription (with price deleted) on first front flyleaf in a hand closely resembling that of Richard Heber ‘1815 D. of Dev. Dupl Sale [...]’; Devonshire duplicate sale (29 May, 1815), lot 112; sold to Heber for £4.4.0; see the annotated British Library copy of the sale catalogue; later pencil note on first front flyleaf ‘... the La Valliere copy sold for 601 francs, and this copy for 4/4/0 Devonshire Duplicates ...’ Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector: without Heber’s book-stamp, but from the evidence of the above inscription probably lot 1944 in Bibliotheca Heberiana sale (part VI, 1835). Thomas Arthur (fl. 1856-1876), bookseller, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Arthur 12 Apr. 1869 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note and price code “12 4 69 Arthur ba/-” on first front flyleaf together with his inventory number “No 4042” and a superseded inventory number “125”; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to one of the two University Library bookplates on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled red sheep; the covers decorated with a foliate roll and a chain-like roll to form a mitred two panel design, an ornament at the inner corners of the inner panel; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; flyleaves have arms of Amsterdam watermark; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 295 × 203 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 285 x 194 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginalia in a humanist hand - all heavily washed out; 19th-century shelfmarks in ink on first front flyleaf “2H3-5” (scored through and replaced with “2G-3”); initials “DD” in red ink on verso of front free endpaper and a 19th-century price in pencil “£1-1-0”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
