Mela, Pomponius: Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.
Edited by Hermolaus Barbarus.
[Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, ca. 1498]
4to. a-h4 i6. [38] leaves. Woodcut initials.
ISTC im00454000; GW M34868; Goff M454; Bod-inc M-180; CIBN M-285; Walsh 2535.
Goff, Proctor and others assign to [Simon Bevilaqua]. IGI, followed by CIBN, assigns to the [Printer of the Nomen Jesu], but see Walsh's reasons for rejecting the latter attribution – ISTC.
| GIP number: | M27 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| 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 “N.6.5”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century brown calf; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 205 x 150 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 201 x 143 mm. |
| Annotations: | Unidentified symbol written in ink at lower outer corner of first recto of some quires; early signature collation given on the blank page i6v; 18th-century code in ink on rear free endpaper “12batt” or perhaps “nbatt” with a bar above and below the code (for a closely similar code, see Appianus, Historia Romana, Venice: Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477, BD7-d.16 (A71/2)). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
