Dio Chrysostomus: De Troia non capta.
Translated by Franciscus Philelphus. Add: Petronius Arbiter: Satyrici fragmenta quae extant.
Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, 18-23 July 1499.
4to. A-E4 F6 a-e4. [46] leaves (F6, e4 blank).
Woodcut initial.
ISTC id00208000; GW 8372; Goff D208; BMC V 549 (IA. 24346); Bod-inc D-068; CIBN D-126; BSB-Ink D-170.
BMC's title is Oratio ad Ilienses.
| GIP number: | D11 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Richard Mead (1673-1754) M.D.: Mead’s shelfmark “R,3,,38.” in ink on first front flyleaf; lot 1554, p. 164 (18 Apr. 1755) in Bibliotheca Meadiana (London: 1754); sold for £0.14.0 according to the priced copy of the Mead sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Mu33-e.30). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “At.5.22”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled red goatskin; covers decorated with single gold-fillet border embellished at each inner corner with an ornamental design made-up of separate tools and with a lozenge-shaped centre-piece also made-up of separate tools; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; blue silk bookmark. Size: 205 x 149 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 200 x 144 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional early marginal and interlinear annotations and nota marks, mainly so washed out as to be illegible; on verso of front free endpaper the number (or date?) ”1618” and the shelf-mark(?) "f5" in pencil. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | The Petronius only; wanting quires A-F (i.e. the text of Dio Chrysostomus and the following blank leaf). |
