Antoninus Florentinus: Confessionale: Omnis mortalium cura [Italian]. Specchio di coscienza.
Add: Libretto della dottrina cristiana.
Venice: Christophorus Arnoldus, 1473.
4to. [1-610 78 8-910 106 11-1210 134]. [118] leaves, 94 and 118 blank.
ISTC ia00845000; GW 2159; Goff A845; BMC V 205 (IA. 19985); CIBN A-441.
Collation follows that of BMC, not of GW.
GIP number: | A66 |
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.20 (see main library entry for this item) |
Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 325 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 13 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “M.7.9”. |
Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 199 x 142 mm. |
Leaf size: | 192 x 135 mm. |
Annotations: | Traces of early numbering of quires. |
Decoration: | On 1/1r is a four-line historiated gilt initial “O” depicting the risen Christ with banner, the initial set on a green and purple square ground with floral extensions into the margins in green, purple, blue and gold; other initials supplied thoughout in alternate blue and red. |
Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf 10/6 (f.94) and gatherings 11-12 (ff.95-114) i.e. the Libretto della dottrina cristiana. |