Ammianus Marcellinus: Historiae, libri XIV-XXVI.
Edited by Angelus Sabinus.
Rome: Georgius Sachsel and Bartholomaeus Golsch, 7 June 1474.
Fol. [1-910 108 11-1310 148]. [136] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC ia00564000; GW 1617; Goff A564; BMC IV 54 (IB. 17742); Bod-inc A-239; CIBN A-306
Two copies held by the University of Glasgow.
Copy 1
| GIP number: | A58/1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bh.1.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Agen, Jesuit College: inscription on 1/2r “Coll. Soc. Jesu Agen Catal. Inscrip.” Richard Mead (1673-1754) M.D.: Mead’s shelfmark “3I,7,,2.” in ink on first front flyleaf (perhaps partially repeated very faintly in pencil on 1/2r as “III”); lot 1644, p. 223 (3 May 1755) in 'Bibliotheca Meadiana' (London: 1754); sold for £4.6.6 according to the priced copy of the Mead sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Mu33-e.30) - though a pencil note on the first front flyleaf gives a price of “4-15-0”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: perhaps purchased by Hunter at the Mead sale. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “At.4.9”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century gold-tooled calf; covers decorated with a double-fillet border and with a central panel formed by a triple fillet, with a floral ornament at each outer corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 332 x 234 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 324 x 222 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious marginal annotations mainly in Latin (but occasionally in Greek) in more than one humanist hand, written in black ink and in faded red ink; frequent interlinear corrections; some spaces for lacunae in the text filled-in in manuscript; occasional manicules and “nota” marks; on the final blank page 14/8v (f. 136v) a substantial passage of manuscript Greek text of 23 lines from Ioannes Zonaras, 'Epitome historion', X.12, beginning (in transliteration) “Ho de Kikeron [i.e. Cicero] demegoresas, epeise, pantas me mnesikakein allelois ...” and ending “pros orgen” cf. 'Ioannis Zonarae Epitome historiarum ... Edidit Ludovicus Dindorfius', 6 vols (Lipsiae: 1868-75) v.2, p.373 (identified by David Weston, University of Glasgow Library, 2010). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf. |
Copy 2
| GIP number: | A58/2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bl7-e.2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Guillaume Prousteau (1626-1715) jurist, of Orléans: initials “G” and “P” stamped in gold on front and rear covers respectively; the same initials appear on the binding of another Glasgow incunabulum: Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistolae et carmina. [Utrecht: Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt, not after 1474], which has an inscription on 1/2r “hic lib[er] fuit Guil[lemi] Prousteau Antecess[oris] Aurel[ianensis] nunc est usus studios[orum] o[mn]ium”. University of Glasgow Library: source unknown; acquired by University Library before 1791; shelfmark “CE.6.8” on University Library bookplate on front pastedown matching entry in A. Arthur, 'Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis', (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 17th-century blind-tooled calf; covers decorated with a triple-fillet border and a centre panel formed by intersecting quadruple fillets; pierced holes at fore-edges of both boards indicate the book once had clasps; initials "G" and "P" in gold added to front and rear panels respectively in 17th/early 18th century; spine covering no longer present. Size: 271 x 179 mm. |
| Leaf size: | Approximately 271 x 179 mm. |
| Annotations: | On front pastedown the (17th/18th-century) price “xii stuy:” i.e. 12 stuyvers; on front free endpaper pencil numbers “166--15” and “234--5”. |
| Decoration: | Unknown. |
| Imperfections: | The text block has been removed (stolen?) and only the binding, endpapers and flyleaves now remain; contents reported missing in 1951. |
