Varro, Marcus Terentius: De lingua latina.
Add: Analogia. Edited by Angelus Tiphernas. Preliminaries: Angelus Tiphernas: Epistola Alexandro Iustino.
[Rome: Georgius Sachsel and Bartholomaeus Golsch, not before Sept. 1474]
Fol. [112 26 312 44 (4/4+1) 5-78]. [59] leaves.
Collation follows that of BMC, not that of BSB-Ink V-56.
ISTC iv00093000; GW M49458; Goff V93; BMC IV 56 (IB. 17750); BSB-Ink V-56.
| GIP number: | V10 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1387 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 134 livres; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “M.5.8”. |
| 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; green silk bookmark. Size: 279 x 211 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 270 x 199 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | Capital and paragraph strokes supplied in faded yellow. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting 1/1. |
