Mirabilia Puteolorum: De mirabilibus Puteolorum et de balneis ibidem existentibus.
Edited by Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus and Arnaldus de Bruxella.
Naples: Arnaldus de Bruxella, 31 Dec. 1475.
8vo. [1-58 66]. [46] leaves (1/1, 6/6 blank).
ISTC im00590000; GW M36686; Goff M590; BMC VI 858 (IA. 29372); Bod-inc M-221.
| GIP number: | M46 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.38 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 1/2r, line 2: “vicinorum” not as BMC “uicinorum”. |
| Provenance: | Ignatius Constantius (fl. 1675): inscription on 1/1v “Ignatij Constantij 1675.” John Wright, library keeper to George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull (fl. 1723): inscription on 1/1v “June 26. 1723. Collat. & perfect. p[er] J. Wright”. Thomas Jekyll (d. 1774?): lot 2668 in A catalogue of the library of Thomas Jekyl, Esq; deceased; nephew of the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Jekyl ... which will be sold by auction, by S. Baker and G. Leigh ... beginning Monday, March the 20th, 1775. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Jekyll sale for £2.5.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Jekyll sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 12(4). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “W.8.5”. |
| Binding: | Italy(?), 17th-century limp parchment; title written on spine (with decorative pen-work below, possibly incorporating faded initials); remains of two ties; rear cover repaired. Size 208 x 148 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 202 x 142 mm. |
| Annotations: | 1/2 to 6/6 (ff. 2-44) foliated in ink in an early hand “1” to “43”; title “Putheolorum mirabilia” written in ink in an 18th-century hand on 1/1v. |
| Decoration: | On 1/2r a four-line initial “E” is supplied in dark blue and decorated with red pen-work extending into the margin; all other initials supplied in alternate red and dark blue and in each case a small guide-letter has been supplied in black ink in the margin. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
