Tacitus, Publius Cornelius: Opera.
Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus and Bernardinus Lanterius.
[Milan: Antonius Zarotus, ca. 1487]
Fol. a-d8 e-i6 K8 l-n8 o6 p-r8 ſ8 t-x6 y10 z8 &8 A-B6. [188] leaves, 160, 176 and 188 blank. Leaf a2 signed a1, a3 signed a2.
ISTC it00007000; GW M44730; Goff T7; BMC VI 719 (IB. 26090); Bod-inc T-005; CIBN T-5.
Dated ca. 1490 in IGI.
| GIP number: | T1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-c.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | The bifolium l4.5 misbound between i3 and i4. |
| Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown; an early Euing inventory number “32” in pencil on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | 18th-century russet calf; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border and with a central panel formed by a triple gold fillet and an ornamental blind roll, with a floral ornament in gilt at the outer corners; rebacked in the 19th century, new endpapers added (no surviving evidence of originals). Size: 307 x 209 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 297 x 197 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations throughout in a humanist hand, but most so heavily washed out as to be illegible; slight evidence of early interlinear corrections; loosely inserted at front is a folded sheet of paper containing Euing’s notes on this edition. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting quires A and B (containing De vita Agricolae). |
