Biblia latina.

Edited by Johannes Andreas de Bussis, bishop of Aleria. Add: [Pseudo-] Aristeas: Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus; translated by Matthias Palmerius.

Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner, 9 Dec. 1475.
Fol. [1⁸ 2-19¹⁰ 20-21¹² 22-41¹⁰ 42-43⁸ 44-46¹⁰]. [458] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device in red.
Four-line initials printed in red;  spaces left for larger initials.
ISTC ib00544000;  GW 4219;  Goff B544;  BMC II 407 (IC. 7847);  Bod-inc B-253;  CIBN B-374;  BSB-Ink B-421.

Two copies held by the University of Glasgow

Copy 1

GIP number:	B45/1
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Euing Dn-b.7, 8 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	A paper strip with two additional lines of printed text is pasted onto the lower margin after the final line of col. 2 of 28/10v (f. 282v) - presumably in the printing office.
Note:	Leaves 4/8, 33/2, and 33/10 (ff. 36, 324, and 332) are of lesser width and have had their outer margins extended by the addition of a pasted-on strip of paper - probably in the printing office.
Note:	46/10 (f. 458) mounted.
Note:	Bound in two volumes, dividing at 21/12 (f. 212) i.e. after the Psalter.
Provenance:	Krupka, Bohemia, Jesuit convent:  inscription “Residentiae Grupnensis Societatis Iesu” on 1/1r. Prague, Royal Academy Library:  circular book stamp “REGIAE: BIBLIOTH: ACAD: PRAGEN:” on 1/1v and on 2/1v (f. 9v). William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow:  source unknown;  purchased by Euing 6 July 1844 according to his pencil acquisition date “6. 7. 44” on 1/1r;  Euing’s pencil shelfmarks “XIV-a-8” and “XIV-a-9” with his early inventory number “No 1” on front pastedowns. University of Glasgow:  Euing bequest, 1874.
Binding:	Scotland, 19th-century blind-tooled dark brown calf;  top edges gilt;  brown silk bookmarks;  binder’s ticket “Bound by Carss & Coy. Glasgow” on front pastedowns;  no evidence preserved of earlier bindings or endpapers.   Size:  478 x 335 mm.
Leaf size:	463 x 326 mm.
Annotations:	Early signatures (some cropped);  after the final word “Finis” printed in red on 46/10r (f. 458r) the words “hui[us] op[er]is deo gratias:” have been added in red ink (by the rubricator?).
Decoration:	On 1/1r the centre margin is decorated with a slender grey stem, from which foliate decoration in grey, red, green and dull yellow extends into the upper and lower margins;  1/2r is similarly decorated; on 2/1r (f. 9r) an eleven-line initial “F” is supplied in shades of green to resemble foliage and is set on a square ground of dull yellow with purple and grey borders, from which foliate decoration extends into the inner margin;  on the same page the centre margin contains a slender grey stem from which foliate and floral decoration in red, grey, purple, green and dull yellow extends into the upper and lower margins, and in the outer margin is a banderole in red and purple in the shape of a letter "G" containing Hebrew characters in white whose meaning is unclear;  on 38/8r (f. 380r) is a preliminary pencil sketch for marginal foliate and floral decoration.  Principal initials at the beginning of each book of the Bible are supplied in red and reserved white, generally with marginal flourishes;  capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout.  See N.R. Thorp, Glory of the page, no. 95.
Imperfections:	None.

Copy 2

GIP number:	B45/2
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.1.10, 11 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	A paper strip with two additional lines of printed text is pasted onto the lower margin after the final line of col. 2 of 28/10v (f. 282v) - presumably in the printing office.
Note:	Leaves 4/8, 33/9, and 33/10 (ff. 36, 331, and 332) are of lesser width and have had their outer margins extended by the addition of a pasted-on strip of paper - probably in the printing office.
Note:	Bound in two volumes, dividing at 21/12 (f. 212) i.e. after the Psalter.
Provenance:	Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 23 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 129 livres 1 sou;  see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23r). University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplates on front pastedowns, with former shelfmarks “Ad.2.5” and “Ad.2.6”.
Binding:	France, 18th-century red goatskin;  covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner;  gold-tooled spines;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves with marbled underlay;  blue silk bookmarks;  flyleaves have bunch of grapes watermark and countermark “L G”.  Size: 469 x 328 mm.
Leaf size:	454 x 312 mm.
Annotations:	None.
Decoration:	On 2/1r (f. 9r) an eleven-line initial “F”, which is supplied in pale pink with white tracery, is set on a square gold ground and the initial is infilled with a flower in pink and with foliage in green and blue;  on the same page the two columns of text are separated by a column or pillar in gold, blue, green and pale pink, and the whole page is decorated with four elaborate foliate and floral borders in the same colours, which incorporate a peacock, a dog, a hare(?) reclining on a patch of white-vine decoration, two roundels each containing a landscape of trees and sky, and an empty green laurel wreath (for an intended coat of arms?).  In the inner margin of 2/4r (f. 12r) a thirty-line initial “I” is supplied in (now oxidized) silver and is set on a gold background from which extends floral spray-work in black and gold;  the inner margin of 22/1r (f. 213r) has a similarly decorated twenty-line initial “I”;  in col. 2 of the same page a seven-line initial “P”, which is supplied in shades of pink, blue and green with white tracery, is set on a square gold ground and the body of the initial is infilled with foliage in shades of green.  Principal initials at the beginning of each book of the Bible are supplied in red and blue with reserved white and further decorated with pen-work in red and purple, or in red and blue, with lavish extensions into the margins;  capital strokes in yellow throughout.
Imperfections:	None.