Hugo Senensis: Expositio in primam fen quarti Canonis Avicennae.
Add: Quaestio de modo augmentationis.
Pavia: Johannes Andreas de Boscho, for Franciscus de Nebiis, 29 Oct. 1498.
Fol. a8 b-d6 e4 f-i6 k4 l2. [60] leaves.
Woodcut device in red of the publisher, Franciscus de Nebiis, on a1r.
ISTC ih00547000; GW 13643; Goff H547; Walsh 3474.
Includes the Latin text of Avicenna. Edited by Johannes Tollentinus - cf. Walsh.
| GIP number: | H44 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Cm.1.1 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | a1r, lines 1-2 (in red) below woodcut device: “Aurea ac fere diuina preſtantiſſimi || viri ...”, as GW Anm., not as GW’s main transcription. |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Hugo Senensis, Consilia ad diversas aegritudines. Pavia: [Leonardus Gerla] for Franciscus de Nebiis, 14 Apr. [1499] (H43). |
| 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 “Be.5.17”. |
| Binding: | 17th/18th-century calf; covers decorated with a gold centre-piece and a dog-tooth roll border in blind; red leather spine label (much of spine covering now lost); red-edged leaves; without pastedowns; flyleaves have watermark letters “E V H”. Size: 385 x 271 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 381 x 266 mm. |
| Annotations: | Underlining, nota marks and keyword marginal annotations on a2-3. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
