Homerus: Batrachomyomachia, with a gloss [Greek].
Venice: Laonicus Cretensis [and Alexander Cretensis], 22 Apr. 1486.
4to. i-iii8. [24] leaves (iii8 blank).
ISTC ih00301000; GW 12901; Goff H301; BMC V 408 (IA. 23022); Bod-inc H-137; CIBN H-174; BSB-Ink B-235.
| GIP number: | H32 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.23 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar: Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards; lot 1876 in Bibliotheca Askeviana … (London: Baker & Leigh, 1775). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Askew sale for £14.14.0 according to the annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Mu36-c.8). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ay.5.23”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled red goatskin; covers decorated with a zig-zag roll border, an ornament at each corner; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; green silk bookmark. Size: 219 x 143 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 213 x 136 mm. |
| Annotations: | Askew’s note on front flyleaf: “This Book is so extremely rare that I never saw any other Copy of it, except that of Mons.r de Boze who told me that he gave 650 Livres for it - M.r Smith our Consul at Venice wrote me word that he had purchased a Copy, but that it was imperfect - Lord Oxford offered M.r Mattaire fifty Guineas for this identical Copy.” |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf iii8. |
