Justinus, Marcus Junianus: Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias.
Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 12 Dec. 1479.
Fol. a10 b-c8 d6 e-l8 m6 n10. [104] leaves (a1 blank).
ISTC ij00618000; GW M15634; Goff J618; BMC V 221 (IB. 20173); Bod-inc J-295; CIBN J-340; BSB-Ink I-669.
| GIP number: | J34 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Robert Hoblyn (1710-1756), politician: Bibliotheca Hoblyniana ... (Londini: 1769), p. 364; Hoblyn sale, 2 Mar. 1778 onwards; lot 4008 (“Justini Historia, compact. in corio turcico, Venet. per Phillip. Condom Petre, 1479”). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Hoblyn sale along with lot 4007 (“Justini Historia, et Florus sine Anno vel Loco”, J35/2) for £1.13.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Hoblyn sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 11(4). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “N.1.7”. |
| Note: | Hunter apparently had a second copy of this edition, which he purchased through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 21 livres at the Gaignat sale - lot 2681 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769); see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 23r); it too was bound in red goatskin (“mar. r.”) but the only copy now in the Hunterian Library is more likely to be the Hoblyn copy (from evidence of the gold-tooling on the covers and spine and from the watermarks of the flyleaves). |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century gold-tooled red sheep; covers decorated with a chain-pattern roll border; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; front and rear flyleaves have a Pro Patria watermark and “G R” countermark surmounted by crown. Size: 312 x 211 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 300 x 201 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious marginal annotations in a humanist hand, heavily washed but mostly still legible; frequent underlining, heavily washed; number "25" on n10v and number “500” on first front flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
