Historia Alexandri Magni [Italian]. De la vita et della morte de Alexandro Magno.
Adapted by Leo Archipresbyter.
Treviso: [Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria], 18 Feb. 1474.
4to. [16 2-810 96 108 1110]. [100] leaves.
ISTC ia00409000; GW 880; Goff A409; BSB-Ink H-289.
| GIP number: | H29 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bx.3.32 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | The opening lines of 1/1r differ from the transcription in GW: "Tauola nela hiſtoꝛia de Alexandro magno . zoe . || del ſuo naſcimēto . e de le ſoe ꝓſperoſe battaglie . et || de la moꝛte ſoa infoꝛtunata." (see ISTC’s note on the Library of Congress copy). |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 2347 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 42 livres; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 25v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aw.11.18”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; red-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; red silk bookmark. Size: 201 x 139 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 196 x 133 mm. |
| Annotations: | A few marginal annotations but all so washed out as to be illegible; quires 2-11 foliated in an early hand “1” to “94” (many leaf numbers washed out). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
