Simoneta, Johannes: Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae.

Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus.

Milan:  Antonius Zarotus, '23 Jan.' [between 6 July 1481 and 3 Feb. 1482]
Fol.   a-z8 A-E8 F-G6 H-K8 L6 M-N8 O10.   [292] leaves, the last two blank.
ISTC is00532000;  Goff S532;  BMC VI 718;  Bod-inc S-214.

A six years’ privilege for this book was granted by the Duke of Milan to the printers on 6 July 1481.   For date of printing see BMC and CIBN;  one of the Paris BN copies has a printed letter of dedication to Louis XI dated 3 Feb. 1482;  G. Ianziti, 'Humanistic historiography under the Sforzas' (Oxford:  1988) pp. 211-19, argues that printing  was finished in 1483. – ISTC.

Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian Be.2.17 (see main library entry for this item)
Note: Printer's pin-holes visible.
Provenance: Rome, Barnabites (Clerici Regulares Sancti Pauli), Collegio di S. Paolo alla Colonna:  partially erased inscription on a1r "Collegii [...] Cleric[orum] Regulariu[m] S. Pauli in Colūna" - above which is a totally erased inscription.
Paris, Jesuits:  "Colleg. Paris. Soc. Iesu" in upper margin of a1r;  lot 4483 in 'Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque des ci-devant soi-disans Jésuites de Collège de Clermont' (Paris:  1764);  sold for 100 livres according to the priced copy of the sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library.
Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 2958  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 50 livres 1 sou;  see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25r).
University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ay.1.7”.
Binding: France, 18th-century blue morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner;  gold-tooled spine;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves;  pink silk bookmark.   Size:  318 x 227 mm.
Leaf size: 308 x 214 mm.
Annotations: None.
Decoration: Initials supplied in brown ink throughout.
Imperfections: Wanting the blank leaves O9 and O10.

 

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