Isaac Medicus: De particularibus diaetis.
Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis, 23 Mar. 1487.
4to. [12 2-78 810]. [2], 1-58 leaves (1/1 blank).
Woodcut initials.
ISTC ii00176000; GW M15221; Goff I176; BMC VII 923 (IA. 30030); Bod-inc I-026; BSB-Ink I-623.
| GIP number: | I6 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.33 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Unidentified Cluniac house: cropped and heavily washed inscription (partially read under ultraviolet light) “ex mona[ste]rio S[anc]tj Steph[ani] [...] ord[inis] Cluniasens[is]” on 2/1r (f. "1"r). Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1174 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 15 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 25r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Y.10.5”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; orange silk bookmark. Size: 199 x 137 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 193 x 132 mm. |
| Annotations: | Single nota mark on 3/8r (f. "16"r). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting quire 1. |
