Perottus, Nicolaus: Rudimenta grammatices.
Padua: Albertus de Stendal, 17 June 1475.
Fol. [1-210 3-128 13-146]. [112] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC ip00304000; GW M31202; Goff P304; CIBN P-121; HC 12645.
| GIP number: | P13 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.2.24 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ba.2.2”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century brown calf; yellow-edged leaves; repaired and rebacked with brown goatskin by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Feb. 1962; new plain endpapers; sample of original gold-tooled spine mounted on inside of rear board; original red leather title label put back on new spine; binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown. Size: 292 x 200 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 285 x 190 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent 15th/16th-century marginal annotations in brown ink in quire 1, mainly extracting keywords; similar annotations in the same hand on 8/5r - 8/6r (ff. 65r - 66r); early marginal annotations in a different hand, in red ink, on 10/2 (f. 78); a few scribblings in Italian in an early hand on 14/6v (f. 112v); manuscript foliation “1”-“111” in an 18th-century hand. |
| Decoration: | Four lines of incipit on 1/2r washed in faded yellow; capitals and some words washed in yellow on 5/4v - 5/6r (ff. 40v - 42r) and on 6/1r (f. 45r). |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf. |
