Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus: Opera.
Add: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus: De Resurrectione Christi carmen.
[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
Fol. [1-212 310 4-228 2312]. [198] leaves (1/1, 23/12 blank).
ISTC il00005000; GW M16566; Goff L5; BMC V 160 (IC. 19545); Bod-inc L-006; CIBN L-5; BSB-Ink L-5.
| GIP number: | L3 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.2.16 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Unlike some copies (e.g. München BSB, Paris BN, Genova Durazzo), this copy does not contain an additional quire of eight leaves with the extract of the Epitome divinarum institutionum, as described by Hain (9810*). |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 221 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769). NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 74 livres. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 33 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ar.2.4”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 320 x 219 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 310 x 204 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations, mainly extracting keywords, in an early hand (mostly washed out and cropped); occasional manicules, underlining and nota marks; running book numbers “I”-“VII” supplied in either brown or red ink on rectos from 2/2 (f. 14) to 20/4 (f. 166). “.YHS.” in red ink in top margin of 1/2r. |
| Decoration: | Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout; final line “Dominus Iesu Gratias.” on 23/7v (f. 193v) framed in red pen-work. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf 1/1. |
