Cornazzano, Antonio: La vita di Cristo.
Add: Carmen heroicum pro laudibus Venetiarum.
[Venice?: Printer of Cornazzano (GW 7550)], 1472.
4to. [1-98]. [72] leaves, 1, 2 and 72 blank.
ISTC ic00912000; Goff C912; BMC VII 1147; GW 7550.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.26 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 3/1r (f.17r), line 1: “Ma dico ben che mai: tanto ...” instead of GW’s “Ma dico ben che mai tanto ...” |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1693 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 49 livres 18 sous; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “A.8.11”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; green silk bookmark. Size: 231 x 164 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 226 x 158 mm. |
| Annotations: | Catchwords added in a 16th-century hand at the foot of each recto from 2/1 to 9/7 (ff.9-71); leaves foliated in the same hand “1”-“6”, “1”-“63”; faded annotation at foot of 1/8v “Fine della Tavola” perhaps in same hand. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first two and the final blank leaves. |
