Boccaccio, Giovanni: De montibus, silvis, fontibus.
Venice: [Vindelinus de Spira], 13 Jan. 1473.
Fol. [1-410 5-810.8]. [76] leaves (8/8 blank).
ISTC ib00756000; GW 4482; Goff B756; BMC V 162 (IB. 19561); Bod-inc B-375; CIBN B-549; BSB-Ink B-564.
| GIP number: | B79 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterain Be.1.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The second of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Boccaccio, Giovanni, Genealogiae deorum. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472 (B82). |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Unidentified ecclesiastical owner: armorial bookstamp on 8/7r (f. 75r) - a shield bearing three lions rampant and a sceptre(?), surmounted by a mitre and crosier. Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): arms in gilt on both covers (Olivier 740); lot 391 in Guillaume de Bure, Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M*** (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Peter Molini, for 110 livres; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ag.6.5”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century gold-tooled blue goatskin; covers decorated with a wide foliate roll border, with an ornament at each inner corner and with the Brancas de Lauraguais arms in gilt in the centre; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark. Size: 341 x 245 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 333 x 234 mm. |
| Annotations: | Early manuscript signatures “hh”-“pp” which continue the sequence of manuscript signatures in the first item in the volume. Foliated in red ink “1”-“75” (f. 72 by-passed in the foliation). |
| Decoration: | Principal initials supplied in red and blue with reserved white; other initials supplied in red or blue (occasionally with reserved white); underlining in red; occasional paragraph marks in red or in blue; frequent initial strokes in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
