Livius, Titus: Historiae Romanae decades I, III, IV.
Edited by Lucas Porrus. Add: Lucius Annaeus Florus: Epitome decadum XIV.
Treviso: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 1482.
Fol. a10 b-q8 r6 aa-mm8 nn-oo6 A-K8 L6. [330] leaves (a1, r6, L6 blank).
ISTC il00243000; GW M18477; Goff L243; BMC VI 896 (IB. 28431); Bod-inc L-121; CIBN L-182; BSB-Ink L-191.
| GIP number: | L30 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.1.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Frater Georgius (17th century): partially obliterated inscription on a2r “Usui fratris Georgij [...] 1610(?)” William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ai.2.5”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled red goatskin; covers decorated with a floral roll and an anthemion roll to a two panel design, with separate ornaments at the inner corners of the panels; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gauffered gilt-edged leaves; three silk bookmarks (pink, green, and blue); front and rear flyleaves have watermark of a shield containing a bird and two flower-heads(?). Size: 336 x 235 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 323 x 224 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in a 16th/17th-century hand; misprinted signatures p4 (“qpiiii”), q4 (“piiii”), A4 (“Biiii”) corrected by hand. |
| Decoration: | Woodcut initials pasted into initial spaces in several instances (e.g. initial “M” on aa1v). |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves a1 and L6. |
