Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius: Vitae XII Caesarum.
Add: Ausonius: Versus.
[Venice: Printer of the 1480 Valla (H 15809) (Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis?)], 1480.
Fol. a10 b-g8 h6 i8 k6 l8 m-p6. [110] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC is00820000; Goff S820; BMC VII 1137; Bod-inc S-341.
Proctor and Pellechet assign the printing to Johannes Rubeus at Treviso (cf. BMC VI p.l: Johannes Rubeus was 'either identical or closely allied with the Printer of the 1480 Valla').
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.2.2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | In consequence of the confusion in the setting of leaves b7-8, the text of these leaves was set afresh, beginning on c1; the faulty leaves b7-8, cancelled in some copies, are present in this copy. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmarks “Av.3.10” and “Bw.2.15”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century blind-tooled brown goatskin; covers decorated to a two panel design with a double fillet and a foliate roll; red leather gilt title label on spine; marbled pastedowns; yellow-edged leaves. Size: 293 × 212 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 287 x 206 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious marginal annotations in a humanist hand mainly in Latin but with some keywords in Greek - all heavily washed out; occasional corrections of text; Greek also added to spaces in text left by printer in gatherings g-l. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank a1. |
