Grünpeck, Josephus: De pestilentiali scorra, sive Mala de Franzos.
Add: Sebastian Brant: Eulogium de scorra pestilentiali.
[Augsburg: Johann Schaur, between 18 Oct. & 17 Dec. 1496.]
4to. a8 b4 c6. [18] leaves.
Woodcuts; woodcut initials.
ISTC ig00514800; GW 11569; BMC II 393 (IA. 6830); BSB-Ink G-384.
| GIP number: | G52 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.38 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | “Petros Aouroldos, komarches”: inscription in Greek in a 16th-century hand at the foot of a1r "Βιβλιον του Πετρου Αουρολδου κωμαρχου", (transliterated) “Biblion tou Petrou Aouroldou komarchou”. René Moreau (1587-1656), Professor of Medicine, Collège Royal, Paris: inscription on a1r “Moreau Med. Paris.” Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680), Superintendent of Finance under Louis XIV: Fouquet purchased Moreau’s medical library after the latter’s death; see E. Stewart Saunders, "Politics and scholarship in seventeenth-century France: the library of Nicolas Fouquet and the College Royal", Journal of library history, 20 (Winter, 1985), p. 6. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ag.10.23”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border, a fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; flyleaves have partially visible watermark of the British royal arms and initials ‘G R’. Size: 186 × 133 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 183 x 130 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent early marginal annotations (cropped); underlining in black and red throughout; occasional nota marks and manicules. |
| Decoration: | Some capital strokes supplied in red in most chapter headings. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
