Servius Maurus, Honoratus: Commentarii in Vergilii opera.

[Rome]:  Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus), [ca. 1470-71]
Fol.   [1-210 312 4-510 68 7-810 98 1014 11-2010 21-258 2610 27-298 3010 316 3210 334 3410 356].   [322] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC is00478000; GW M41882; Goff S478; Walsh 1306; CIBN S-240; BSB-Ink S-365.


Dated by CIBN;  IGI dates ca. 1477.

GIP number: S32
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.1.12 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance: Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 1606 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 64 livres 19 sous;  see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.24r).
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “T.4.2”.
Binding: France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner;  gold-tooled spine;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves;  turquoise silk bookmark.   Size:  333 x 235 mm.
Leaf size: 325 x 222 mm.
Annotations: Underlining throughout in light red ink.
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: Wanting the first blank leaf.

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