Macrobius, Aurelius Theodosius: In Somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia.
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1472.
Fol. [1-210 3-128 1310 14-208]. [166] leaves (1/1, 20/7-8 blank).
ISTC im00008000; GW M19702; Goff M8; BMC V 172 (IB. 19655); Bod-inc M-001; CIBN M-6; BSB-Ink M-1.
| GIP number: | M1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.2.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Unidentified owner: unidentified coat of arms on 1/2r: quarterly or and gules, in the second a two-barred cross argent; the shield is set on a blue background and flanked by two multi-coloured winged claws grasping a leafy branch, and with two pairs of entwined ribbons or cords extending sideways from the top of the shield. Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): lot 508 in Guillaume de Bure, Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M*** (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Pietro Molini, for 340 livres; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers, H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.1.11”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark; binder’s ticket on verso of front free endpaper “Relié par Derome le Jeune, rue St. Jacques au dessus de St. Benoit, seul possédent l’Etablissem[en]t de Deffunt son Pere”. Size: 322 x 230 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 312 x 220 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal notes and interlinear corrections in a 16th-century hand in quires 7 and 9; occasional nota marks in quires 10 and 11; several 16th-century pen-and-ink marginal diagrams; pen-and-ink diagrams of the planetary orbits and zodiac supplied in a sixteen-line space in the text on 3/7v (f. 27v), of the sphera terrae in a twelve-line space in the text on 4/8v (f. 36v), and of the hemispheres in a sixteen-line space in the text on 5/2v (f. 38v). |
| Decoration: | Epigraphic eight-line initial “C” on 1/2r supplied in blue with white dot decoration on a ground of pale yellow, the body of the initial decorated with a flower; similar epigraphic initials (several also decorated with flowers) supplied on 1/4v, 4/2r, 6/5r, 10/5v, 11/5v, 13/2v, 13/7r, 15/5v, and 18/3r (ff. 4v, 30r, 49r, 81v, 89v, 102v, 107r, 123v, and 145r); running book numbers supplied in dull red ink; painted coat of arms on 1/2r (see Provenance). |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves 1/1 and 20/7-8. |
