Ausonius, Decimus Magnus: Opera.
Edited by Bartholomaeus Girardinus.
Venice: [Printer of Ausonius], 7 Dec. 1472.
Fol. [16 2-88 912 10-138]. [106] leaves (7, 54, 62, and 63 blank).
ISTC ia01401000; GW 3090; Goff A1401; BMC V 211 (IB. 20034); Bod-inc A-622; CIBN A-795.
Contents: Epigrammata; Versus paschales; Epistolae; Monosticha et tetrasticha; Carmina minora; Gratiarum actio ad Gratianum imperatorem; Technopaegnion; Griphus ternarii numeri; Cento nuptialis; Carmina minora; De bissula. Add: [Pseudo-] Ovidius: Consolatio ad Liviam. Proba Falconia: Cento Vergilianus. Calpurnius Siculus, Titus: Bucolica. Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius: Bucolica. Gregorius Tiphernas, Publius: Carmina.
| GIP number: | A128 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 2/3v (f. 9v), bottom line reads “... ſalutiferæ.” not “... ſalutifere.” - cf. CIBN A-795; 7/7v (f. 53v), line 27 reads “.B. .G.” not “BARTOLOMEVS GIRARDINVS.”- cf. GW 3090 Anm. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and booklabel on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aa.6.2”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century mottled calf decorated with a gold fillet, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; title label now missing (date on spine “1479” [sic]); marbled endpapers; sprinkled blue-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 282 x 195 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 275 x 188 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent early marginal annotations in gatherings 2 and 3 but so heavily washed out as to be largely illegible; occasional interlinear corrections to text; occasional underlining and “nota” marks; rectos numbered in an early hand in ink (some numbers cropped) “110”-“117”, “119”-“122”, “124”-“172” - indicating that this text had once been bound with another or other texts. |
| Decoration: | Four-line initial “P” on 2/2r (f. 8r) supplied in blue (heavily washed out) with red pen-work decoration extending into margin; five-line initial “N” on 10/1r (f. 75r) similarly decorated; other initials and paragraph marks supplied throughout in red or in washed-out blue. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting quire 1 (ff. 1-6); 2/1 (f. 7); 3/2 (f. 16); 3/7 (f. 21); quires 8 and 9 (ff. 55-74), which contain [Pseudo-] Ovidius, Consolatio ad Liviam and Proba Falconia, Cento Vergilianus; quires 12 and 13 (ff. 91-106), which contain Gregorius Tiphernas, Carmina. |
