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. |
