Phalaris [pseudo-]: Epistolae [Latin].
Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus (Aretinus).
Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, 1475.
4to. [1-68 74]. [52] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ip00555000; Goff P555; BMC VII 1027; Bod-inc P-246.
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.39 (see main library entry for this item) |
Variant: | [a1r] (leaf [1r)], lines 3-4: “... EPIS||TVLAS ...” not as BMC “... EPI||STVLAS ...” |
Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ay.7.1”. |
Binding: | Italy (?), 17th/18th-century vellum; manuscript spine title; green-edged leaves. Size: 206 x 152 mm. |
Leaf size: | 200 x 150 mm. |
Annotations: | Early signatures “a-d” “f-g” added in brown ink at lower outer corner of recto leaves; “nota” mark on [1/4r]. |
Decoration: | None. |
Imperfections: | Wanting gathering [s] (ff. 33-40) and the final blank leaf. |