Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad familiares.
Milan: Antonius Zarotus [for Marco Roma], 20 Sept. 1475.
Fol. [110 2-188]. [146] leaves.
ISTC ic00515000; GW 6817; Goff C515; Bod-inc C-267; CIBN C-351.
Bookseller from CIBN.
| GIP number: | C54 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.20 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Bifolium 2/1.8 (ff. 11 and 18) misbound between bifolia 11/1.8 and 11/2.7, i.e. between ff. 83 and 84 and ff. 89 and 90. |
| Note: | Printer’s pin hole visible throughout at the top outer corner of each leaf. |
| Provenance: | R.H.: small initials “R H.” stamped in ink on 1/1r. John Strange (18th century): inscription on verso of front free endpaper “Jno. Strange”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Au.1.5”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled red sheep; covers tooled to a four panel design using double and triple fillets, three different rolls, and with three different ornaments decorating the outer corners of the three inner panels; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 324 x 226 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 314 x 217 mm. |
| Annotations: | Single brief marginal annotation on 18/6r (f. 144r) in an early hand; (18th-century?) numbers “140” and “1818” on 1/1r; on first front flyleaf “Epist”, the numbers “437” and “216 6” all in ink in an 18th-century hand, together with an 18th-century price in pencil “10-6”. |
| Decoration: | Seven-line initial “E” on 1/1r supplied in black ink within a frame and with a small seven-petalled flower head at its left-hand side (also in black ink); other initials throughout supplied in red (occasionally in red with reserved white); guide-letters in brown ink visible for most initials. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
