Sabellicus, Marcus Antonius: Decades rerum Venetarum.
Venice: Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, 21 May 1487.
Fol. [†]6 a8 b-h6 i-k8 l-y6 A-H6 I-M8 N10 O4 [*]2. [240 leaves]. Gathering [†] numbered but not signed.
ISTC is00005000; GW M39264; Goff S5; BMC V 308 (IC. 21644), XII 22 (IC. 21646); Bod-inc S-001; CIBN S-1; BSB-Ink S-4.
| GIP number: | S1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-b.6 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | John Mozley Stark (fl. 1851-1888), bookseller, stationer, printer, and publisher, Hull & London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Stark 26 June 1854 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note and price code on front pastedown “26.6.54 bb/f(?) Stark”; an early Euing inventory number “No 71” in pencil on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 17th/18th-century parchment with fore-edge cover extensions; sprinkled red and blue-edged leaves; manuscript spine title “Sabellic[us] de rebus venetis”; red leather title label and black leather date label added to spine at a later date; rear free endpaper has watermark of the arms of Amsterdam. Size: 345 x 240 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 337 x 233 mm. |
| Annotations: | 17th/18th-century manuscript title and imprint on [†1r]; frequent underlining in dull red or black in the list of contents (quire [†]) and occasional underlining in the text in dull red or black. |
| Decoration: | Ten-line initial “V” and ten-line initial “S” supplied in brown ink on a1r and a2r respectively. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the final unsigned quire [*] containing the errata. |
