Petrarca, Francesco: De vita solitaria.
[Strassburg: The R-Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), not after 1473].
Fol. [1-210 3-48 5-610 710 (7/8+1) 8-98 106]. [89] leaves.
ISTC ip00417000; GW M31765; Goff P417; BMC I 61 (IB. 607); Bod-inc P-171; CIBN P-165 (II); BSB-Ink P-265.
Ascribed to Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch in Bod-inc.
| GIP number: | P19 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.21 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Stub showing between 7/2 and 7/3. |
| Note: | Blind impressions of five lines of text on 10/6r (f. 89r). |
| Bound with: | The second of two incunabula bound together. Bound with Petrarca, Francesco, Secretum de contemptu mundi. [Strassburg: The R-Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), not after 1473]. Treated as two separate editions by BMC, Proctor, Goff, Sack and others; treated as a single edition in two parts by Bod-inc following CIBN. |
| 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 “Ae.10.15”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century mottled brown calf decorated with triple gold fillets; red-edged leaves; repaired and rebacked with brown goatskin by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Feb. 1962; new plain endpapers; samples of original spine and marbled endpapers mounted on inside of rear board; binder’s note tipped onto rear free endpaper. Size: 248 x 207 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 240 x 194 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
