Petrarca, Francesco: Secretum de contemptu mundi.
[Strassburg: The R-Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), not after 1473].
Fol. [110 28 310 4-58 610]. [54] leaves (the first blank).
ISTC ip00412000; GW M31627; Goff P412; BMC I 61 (IB. 606); Bod-inc P-171; CIBN P-165 (I); BSB-Ink P-277.
Cf. Bod-inc and Walsh 72 for corrections of BMC's collation.
Ascribed to Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch in Bod-inc.
| GIP number: | P21 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.21 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with Petrarca, Francesco, De vita solitaria. [Strassburg: The R-Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), not after 1473]. Treated as two separate editions by BMC, Proctor, Goff, Sack and others; treated as a single edition in two parts by Bod-inc following CIBN. |
| 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 “Ae.10.15”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century mottled brown calf decorated with triple gold fillets; red-edged leaves; repaired and rebacked with brown goatskin by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Feb. 1962; new plain endpapers; samples of original spine and marbled endpapers mounted on inside of rear board; binder’s note tipped onto rear free endpaper. Size: 248 x 207 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 240 x 194 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations, underlining and manicules in a 16th-century hand. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf. |
