Caesar, Gaius Julius: Commentarii.
Edited by Hieronymus Bononius. Add: Raimundus Marlianus: Index commentariorum C. Julii Caesaris.
Treviso: Michael Manzolus, 30 June 1480.
Fol. a-u8.6 x6 A-B8 C6. [168] leaves (a1 blank). Quire i is numbered but not signed.
ISTC ic00021000; Goff C21; BMC VI 889 (IB. 28362); Bod-inc C-009; GW 5868; CIBN C-9; BSB-Ink C-27.
| GIP number: | C3 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-c.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Index of Marlianus (quires A-C) is bound at the front. |
| Note: | a8 misbound after A8 of the Index - noted in an early manuscript note in Latin on a7v and on the misplaced leaf a8. |
| Provenance: | Albanus Cobertaldus (fl. 1586): inscription on x6v “1586 Liber Hieronymi Beltraminj emptus ab Albano Cobertaldo [followed by an unread price?]”. Hieronymus Beltraminus (fl. 1586): see above. John Salkeld, bookseller, London (1827-1908): sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Salkeld 24 Mar. 1870 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code “24 3 70 Salkeld ax/f” on A1r; Euing’s pencil inventory number “No 4645” also on A1r, together with his earlier inventory number “134”. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century brown hard-grain goatskin, bevelled edges, covers decorated with a border of triple gold fillets and a single blind fillet; gold-tooled spine; sprinkled red and blue-edged leaves; binder’s stamp “Bound by R. Nelson” at foot of front pastedown; on rear pastedown binder’s date and price “17/10/70 17/6”. Size: 300 x 204 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 288 x 192 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional brief marginal annotations and underlining in an early hand; partial pagination in a 16th-century hand ending at "59" on b1r; a later foliation added ending at "ii5" on o2r; partially read 16th/17th-century inscription on x6v “Al Magr sigr il sigr Gi[...]”. |
| Decoration: | Initial “L” supplied in brown ink on k3r. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
