Gellius, Aulus: Noctes Atticae.
Venice: Philippus Pincius, 15 July 1500.
Fol. A10 B-P8 Q6. [10], I-CXVIII leaves.
ISTC ig00127000; GW 10602; Goff G127; BMC V 499 (IB. 23695); BSB-Ink G-69.
| GIP number: | G19 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bh3-e.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The first of three incunabula bound together. Bound with: (2) Cleonides, Harmonicum introductorium. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497 (C65); (3) Scriptores rei militaris. Bologna: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis, 1495-96 (S20/1). |
| Provenance: | Strassburg, Collegiate Church of New S. Peter: ‘Collegii S. Petri junioris Argentinae’ in a 17th/18th-century hand on A1r. Robert Foulis (1707-1776) & Andrew Foulis (1712-1775), printers and booksellers, Glasgow. University of Glasgow: purchased from the Foulis brothers, 9 June 1742, for £0.12.0; see GUA 353; mid-18th century shelfmark ‘C. f.7. n.1.’ on front free endpaper; later 18th-century shelfmark ‘T.1.27’ on book-plate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 18th-century calf; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; sprinkled red-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark. Size: 297 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 289 x 209 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations, mainly extracting keywords, in black ink (occasionally in red) in a 16th-century hand - the same hand has annotated the other two works in this volume; occasional nota marks and underlining; vertical pair of triangles in ink (hourglass symbol?) on rear free endpaper; pencil number “121” on front flyleaf; pencil number “239” on University Library bookplate. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
