Platina, Bartholomaeus: Vitae pontificum.
[Venice]: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 11 June 1479.
Fol. a10 b-o8 p6 q-y8 z10 &8 aa-ee8 ff6. [240] leaves.
ISTC ip00768000; Goff P768; BMC V 235; Bod-inc P-342.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-c.6 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Conte Alessandro Sanvitale (d. 1804), of Parma: book label with manuscript inscription within an engraved oval frame “Dei Conti Alessandro, e Stefano Sanvitale” on front pastedown. Conte Stefano Sanvitale (1764-1838), of Parma, Italian politician and philanthropist (son of Alessandro Sanvitale): see above. Thomas Arthur (fl. 1856-1876), bookseller, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Arthur 11 May 1869 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note and price code “11 5 69 Arthur ca/f” on a1r together with his inventory number “No 4110” and a superseded inventory number “128”; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 19th-century red paper-covered boards, red morocco spine with gilt spine title and gilt bands; front and rear flyleaves have watermark of a trefoil flanked by the letters “F” and “P”. Size: 308 x 204 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 296 x 194 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in Latin in ink in a humanist hand; other marginal notes in ink in later hands; occasional marginal notes in pencil in a 19th-century(?) hand; several erroneous printed signatures corrected in manuscript in an early hand; foliated in ink in an 18th-century hand (the same hand probably responsible for a brief note in Italian on the physical make-up of the book on a1r); note in ink in French and Italian on this edition written by either Alessandro or Stefano Sanvitale on rear free endpaper; 19th-century price “£1.11.6” and pencil numbers “386” and “1365” on front pastedown together with a brief reference in Italian to Brunet; brief 19th-century note in ink in English on this edition on front free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
