Solinus, Gaius Julius: Polyhistor, sive De mirabilibus mundi.
[Paris]: Au Soufflet Vert (Louis Symonel et Socii), [ca. 1475]
4to. [14 2-510 612 7-1010 1112]. [108] leaves.
ISTC is00617000; GW M42820; Goff S617; BMC VIII 15 (IA. 39222); Bod-inc S-245; CIBN S-303.
The Library of Congress copy has MS date 1476; CIBN dates to ca. 1474-5.
| GIP number: | S44 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.17 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 2/1r (f. 5r), lines 3-5: "... MVN/DI MIRABILIBVS LIBER ; / [C]Vm et aurium clemētia et optimarū", not “MVN=/DI MIRABILIBvS LIBER; / [C]vm et auriū clementia et optimarum' as BMC; 9/5r (f. 81r), line 1: uncorrected "ste potestas ...” - not the corrected version "est potestas ..." cf. BN cat. des incun. S-303. |
| Provenance: | Henricus Nivellanus (15th/16th century): inscription on 11/12v (f. 108v) “Henricus niuellanus”. Robert Hoblyn (1710-1756), politician: 'Bibliotheca Hoblyniana' (Londini: 1769), p. 343; Hoblyn sale, 2 Mar. 1778 onwards; lot 4738 ("Solinus. s.l. s.a. edit. perantiq.") in 'Bibliotheca Hoblyniana ...' (London: Baker & Leigh, 1778); with Hoblyn’s acquisition note on verso of front free endpaper “38d (ῶ) 1745/6” and his shelfmark “Q11-33” (the latter preceded on a separate line by the letter “D” which has been scored through). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Hoblyn sale for £1.1.0 according to the annotated BL copy of the Hoblyn sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 11(4). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Af.10.32”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century calf, tooled to a two-panel design; the outer frame formed by a double gold fillet, the inner frame formed from a triple gold fillet bordered by a blind roll with a floral ornament in gilt at the outer corners; marbled endpapers; rebacked. Size: 197 x 133 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 190 x 127 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand in quire 2; sample letters of the alphabet in red ink in an early hand on 11/12v (f. 108v). |
| Decoration: | Some initials at the beginning of chapters supplied in brown ink in an early hand. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first quire. |
