Montemagno, Bonaccursius de: Controversia de nobilitate.
[Toulouse: Henricus Turner and Johannes Parix, ca. 1476-78]
8vo. [18 212]. [20] leaves, the last two blank(?).
ISTC im00844900; C 1126.
Sometimes ascribed to Brunus Aretinus (Goff).
GW’s collation (M25410) is [a-b10].
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | The transcription in Copinger 1126 (which was 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’nq[ue] ...” not “... vt’mq[ue] ...”. |
| Bound with: | The third of three incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Benedictus de Nursia, De conservatione sanitatis. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, ca. 1481-87]; (2) Platina, Bartholomaeus, De honesta voluptate et valetudine. Cividale: Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, 24 Oct. 1480. |
| 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 morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, 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 final two (blank?) leaves. |
