Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De oratore.
Rome: Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus), 5 Dec. 1468.
4to. [1-510 6-78 810 9-108]. [92] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ic00655000; Goff C655; BMC IV 18; Bod-inc C-227; GW 6743.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variants: | 1/4v, line 21: “Quid” not “Quih”; 1/5r, line 32: “Peripathetici” not “Peripatheci”; 10/7r (f.91r), line 32: “ET” not “Et.” - cf. BMC. |
| Note: | Considerable offsetting throughout. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1465 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 94 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.12Ar). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ap.3.7”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark. Size: 272 x 200 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 268 x 192 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal and occasional interlinear annotations in Latin in a 15th/16th-century hand; frequent pointing hands and “nota” marks; occasional underlining. |
| Decoration: | Initials “C” on 1/1r, “C” on 1/3v, “M” on 3/8v (f.28v) and “I” on 8/1r (f.67r) supplied in blue with reserved white and set on a square of red pen-work decoration extending into the margin. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
