Dionysius Halicarnaseus: Antiquitates Romanae.  

Translated by Lampugninus Biragus.

Treviso:  Bernardinus Celerius, 24 or 25 Feb. 1480.
Fol. [1¹⁰ 2-7⁸ 8-9⁶ 10-37⁸ 38⁶].  [300] leaves, the first blank in most copies, but in some bearing a title.
ISTC id00250000;  GW 8423;  Goff D250;  BMC VI 895 (IB. 28412b);  Bod-inc D-096;  CIBN D-158;  BSB-Ink D-174.

Known in at least 6 issues, frequently mixed:  see GW.

Two copies held by the University of Glasgow

Copy 1

GIP number:	D20/1
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.2.19 (see main library entry for this item)
Variants:	1/1 blank, as GW’s main transcription, not with title on 1/1r as in GW Anm.;  1/2r, line 2: ‘SECVNDO DOMINO ...’ as GW Anm. not ‘SECVNDO D. DOMINO ...’ as GW's main transcription;  25/2r (f. 192r), side-note: ‘Dii ue||terum.’ not ‘Dii uete-||rum.’ (see CIBN);  27/8r (f. 214r): no side-note (see CIBN);  32/3r (f. 249r), side-note: ‘Mors ap||pii.’ not ‘Mors || appii.’ (see CIBN);  38/6r (f. 300r), line 1 begins: ‘tamē romanis ...’ not ‘tamen romanis ...’ (see GW Anm.);  38/6r (f. 300r), lines 30-35: ‘LAPPVS BIRAGVS FLOR. || IMPRESSVM TARVISII PER BERNARDINVM || CELERIVM DE LVERE. ANNO CHR. NATI. || .M.CCCC.LXXX. BISSEXTO KL. MARTIAS || IOANNE MOCENIGO VENETO||RVM DVCE INCLYTO.’ as GW’s main transcription not as the variants in GW Anm.
Provenance:	Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar:  Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards;  lot 1567 in Bibliotheca Askeviana … (London:  Baker & Leigh, 1775). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Askew sale for £5.10.0 according to the annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in Cambridge University Library;  price confirmed in the partially annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in Glasgow University Library (shelfmark Mu36-c.8). University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Au.2.13”.
Binding:	England, 18th-century gold-tooled diced russia;  covers tooled to a two panel design using gold fillets and a blind roll, with a gilt ornament at each outer corner of the inner panel;  gold-tooled spine;  sprinkled red-edged leaves.  Size:  315 x 232 mm.
Leaf size:	299 x 217 mm.
Annotations:	Evidence of early manuscript signatures e.g. “ff3” on 32/3 (f. 249);  18th-century price “£7:17s:6d” and the letter "S" on front free endpaper.
Decoration:	Nine-line initial “E” on 1/2r supplied in red, blue and reserved white, and embellished with blue, black and red pen-work which extends into the inner margin;  similarly decorated initials at the beginning of books I-XI and at the end of book X;  capital strokes supplied in red throughout;  on 38/6r (f. 300r) the translator’s letter to Pope Paul II and the colophon which follows it are underlined in red.
Imperfections:	None.

 

 Copy 2

GIP number:	D20/2
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.3.13 (see main library entry for this item)
Variants:	1/1 blank, as GW’s main transcription, not with title on 1/1r as in GW Anm.;  1/2r, line 2: ‘SECVNDO DOMINO ...’ as GW Anm. not ‘SECVNDO D. DOMINO ...’ as GW's main transcription;  25/2r (f. 192r), side-note: ‘Dii ue||terum.’ not ‘Dii uete-||rum.’ (see CIBN);  27/8r (f. 214r): no side-note (see CIBN);  32/3r (f. 249r), side-note: ‘Mors || appii.’ not ‘Mors ap||pii.’ (see CIBN);  38/6r (f. 300r), line 1 begins: ‘tamē romanis ...’ not ‘tamen romanis ...’ (see GW Anm.);  38/6r (f. 300r), lines 30-35: ‘LAPPVS BIRAGVS FLOR. || IMPRESSVM TARVISII PER BERNARDINVM || CELERIVM DE LVERE. ANNO CHR. NATI. || .M.CCCC.LXXX. BISSEXTO KL. MARTIAS || IOANNE MOCENIGO VENETO||RVM DVCE INCLYTO.’ as GW’s main transcription not as the variants in GW Anm.
Provenance:	William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  source unknown. University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “X.3.12”.
Binding:	Italy, 17th/18th-century parchment;  red leather spine label;  green-edged leaves;  rear free endpaper has watermark of a letter “P” within a nine-petalled flower head.  Size:  295 x 222 mm.
Leaf size:	287 x 213 mm.
Annotations:	Brief marginal annotations extracting keywords in a 17th-century hand on 1/6v and 1/7r;  a few corrections in the same hand on 3/8r (f. 26r);  evidence of manuscript foliation in an early hand;  17th-century(?) annotation (a shelfmark?) “v. Al l2 B5”(?) in lower margin of 1/2r.
Decoration:	None.
Imperfections:	None.