Maius, Junianus: De priscorum proprietate verborum.
Treviso: Bernardus de Colonia, 1477.
Fol. a-c10 d-f8 g-r10 ſ8 s10 t-y8.10 aa12 bb-ll10. [330] leaves.
ISTC im00096000; GW M20099; Goff M96; BMC VI 892 (IB. 28393); Bod-inc M-031; CIBN M-38; BSB-Ink M-66.
| GIP number: | M9 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.1.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Clairvaux, Langres, Champagne, Cistercians, BVM: inscription on a1v “Liber s[an]c[t]e marie clareuallis”. Mathurin de Cangey (15th/16th century), monk and librarian of the Abbey of Clairvaux (cf. Needham IPI): inscription on ll10r “Maturin[us] de Cangeyo”. Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1404 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 36 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “At.4.6”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold circle at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 337 x 236 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 327 x 228 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | On a2r a twelve-line initial “A” is supplied in dark blue with white and pale blue embellishment and set on a gold ground decorated with violets in purple and green; other initials supplied in red and blue with reserved white. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
