Petrus Franciscus Ravennas: Oratio pro patria ad illustrissimum principem Nicolaum Tronum.
[Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, after 25 Feb. 1472]
Fol. [12]. [2] leaves.
ISTC ip00530600; BMC V 171; Bod-inc P-235.
Author also known as Pietro Francesco Tomai or Tomasi; see P. Ginanni, Memorie storico-critiche degli scrittori ravennati (Faenza: 1769), II 436-9.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bh.2.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The second of four incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Paiellus, Guglielmus, Congratulatio pro patria ad Nicolaum Tronum. [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, after 13 Nov. 1471] (3) Philelphus, Franciscus, Epistola ad Nicolaum Tronum. [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson?, after 3 Dec. 1471] (4) Justinianus, Bernardus, Oratio habita apud Sixtum IV contra Turcos. [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, after 2 Dec. 1471]. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1509 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 65 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.23v); but priced at 24 livres 1 sou in the priced copy of De Bure’s catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark BD17-g.22, 23). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Au.2.14”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine lettered “Dissertationes variae Venetiis 1471”; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 315 x 219 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 310 x 213 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
