Perottus, Nicolaus: Rudimenta grammatices.
Edited by Franciscus Rolandellus.
Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, 1476.
4to. [1-210 3-138 14-1910 208 214].
[180] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ip00307000; Goff P307; BMC VI 885; Bod-inc P-120
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bd.2.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Joseph Smith (1673/4?-1770), British Consul in Venice: armorial bookplate on front pastedown; lot 1610 in 'Bibliotheca Smithiana: a catalogue of the curious, elegant, and very valuable library of Joseph Smith ... Which will be sold by auction, by S. Baker and G. Leigh ... on Monday, January the 25th, 1773'. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Smith sale for £1.12.0 according to the annotated BL copy of the Smith sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 8(7). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807 |
| Binding: | Italy, 17th/18th-century vellum with fore-edge cover extensions; black leather title label on spine - partially overlaying a handwritten title; yellow-edged leaves. Size: 185 x 140 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 176 x 133 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations, all so washed out as to be illegible; text of missing leaves 14/8 and 14/9 (ff. 116, 117) supplied in a humanist hand. |
| Decoration: | Three initials on 1/1r supplied in red and blue with some pen-flourishing (the blue much washed out) and a fourth initial supplied in blue which is now almost completely washed out; paragraph marks in red or blue throughout (the blue heavily washed out); capital strokes in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting leaves 14/2.9 and 14/3.8 (ff. 110, 111, 116, 117) and the final blank leaf. |
