Averroes: Colliget.
Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, et socii, 5 Oct. 1482.
Fol. a12 b-d8 e6 f8 g-h6 i8 k6 l8 m6 n8 o-q6. [116] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC ia01411000; GW 3107; Goff A1411; BSB-Ink A-952.
GIP number: | A130 |
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Dk.2.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
Variant: | A variant issue is known, with colophon naming Venice as the place of printing (BMC V p. xxix, VI p. xi and GW); this copy has “... In felici Fer||rarienſi Gimnaſio ...” in the colophon. |
Bound with: | First of five works bound together; bound with: (2) Bernardus de Gordonio, Practica. Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis, Gallus, 18 May 1486; (3) Gentilis Fulginas, Consilium contra pestilentiam. [Padua: Laurentius Canozius, de Lendenaria, ca. 1475]; (4) Mundinus, Anatomia. Bologna: Johannes de Nördlingen and Henricus de Harlem, 20 Jan. 1482; (5) Arcolani, Giovanni, Practica. Venice: Bernardus Vercellensis for Andrea Torresano, 1504. |
Provenance: | Bernhard Rottendorff, M.D. (fl. 1625), possible owner: inscription on a1r (title-page) of fifth item in volume “Sum Bernh: Rottendorff Med: D. M.DC.XXV”. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), German-Dutch anatomist: sale (1771), lot 56. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased at the Albinus sale; see Hunter's marked-up copy of the sale catalogue. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “X.2.4”. |
Binding: | 17th-century parchment over pasteboards with fore-edge cover extensions; five spine titles written in ink at head of spine; red-edged leaves. Size: 304 x 210 mm. |
Leaf size: | 294 x 202 mm. |
Annotations: | Copious marginal annotations in several 15th/16th-century hands, including one which also annotated the second, third and fourth items in the volume; frequent underlining, “nota” marks and manicules; unread, 15th/16th century inscription (partially cropped) on a1r. |
Decoration: | None. |
Imperfections: | None. |