Montemagno, Bonaccursius de: Controversia de nobilitate.
[Toulouse: Henricus Turner, de Basilea, and Johannes Parix, ca. 1476-78]
8vo. [18 212]. [20] leaves, 2/11-12 blank(?).
ISTC im00844900; GW M25410; C 1126; Martin Abad B186.
Sometimes ascribed to Brunus Aretinus (Goff).
GW’s collation (M25410) is [a-b10]; Martin Abad gives format as 4to and [18] leaves.
| GIP number: | M55 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | The transcription in Copinger 1126 (made from this, the Hunterian copy) has several defects: 1/1r, line 2 should read: “... montiſ Ferra-” not “... montiſ Ferra”; 1/1r, lines 3 and 4: “... queſtio di||ſputata ...” (line break omitted in Copinger); 2/10v (f. 18v), line 12: “... vt’n ..." not "... vt’m ..." |
| Bound with: | The third of three incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Benedictus de Nursia, De conservatione sanitatis. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, ca. 1481-87] (B26); (2) Platina, Bartholomaeus, De honesta voluptate et valetudine. Cividale: Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, 24 Oct. 1480 (P63). |
| Provenance: | Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1171 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 10 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 on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ah.7.17”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 193 x 132 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 186 x 124 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the two (blank?) leaves 2/11-12. |
