Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis.
Add: Paradoxa Stoicorum; Laelius, sive de amicitia; Cato maior, sive de senectute; Somnium Scipionis. Hexasticha XII sapientum de titulo Ciceronis.
Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 13 Aug. 1470.
4to. [110 2-128 1310 14-168 174]. [136] leaves (1/1, 17/3-4 blank).
ISTC ic00577000; GW 6926; Goff C577; BMC V 155 (IB. 19514); Bod-inc C-311; CIBN C-396.
| GIP number: | C46 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.20 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pinholes visible. |
| Variant: | Without the woodcut initials at the beginning of each work, and vine-stem border on 1/2r as described in Bod-inc. |
| Provenance: | Unidentified Dutch owner (early 18th century): see Binding. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1491 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 100 livres; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aa.b.11”. |
| Binding: | Netherlands, early 18th-century gold-tooled red goatskin; covers decorated with a roll composed of points and scallop shapes to form a two panel design; the inner panel has a diamond-shaped centre-piece composed of separate tools (including drawer-handle and pomegranate tools) and has an ornament (formed from separate drawer-handle and floral tools) at its four outer corners; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark. For this and a group of over 70 similar bindings, see Mirjam M. Foot, ‘An eighteenth-century incunable collector in The Hague’, in Incunabula: studies in fifteenth-century printed books presented to Lotte Hellinga, ed. M. Davies (London: 1999), pp. 371-87, Appendix no. 6. Size: 284 x 205 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 273 x 197 mm. |
| Annotations: | Number “100”(?) in ink in a 17th/18th-century hand at lower inner corner of 1/2v; number “10” in ink in an 18th-century hand on rear free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting quire 17. |
