Petrus de Abano: Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum.
Add: De venenis.
Mantua: Johannes Vurster and Thomas Septemcastrensis, for Ludovicus Carmelita, 1472.
Fol. [1-710 88 910 (-9/10) 10-1510 1612 17-2510 26-2712 28-3410 3512 368]. [363] leaves, the first and last blank. 9/10 is a cancelled blank leaf, which in the BSB-Ink. copy is uncancelled.
ISTC ip00431000; GW M31841; Goff P431; BMC VII 929 (IC. 30622); CIBN P-205; BSB-Ink P-308.
| GIP number: | P28 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.1.6 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible in some quires. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1166 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 79 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 25r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aa.4.6”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; turquoise silk bookmark; front and rear flyleaves have fleur-de-lys watermark above the date 1742. Size: 417 x 292 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 404 x 279 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in several 16th-century hands; very occasional “nota” marks and manicules. |
| Decoration: | On 1/2r is a 19-line initial “V” supplied in reddish orange and surrounded by a preliminary pen-and-ink outline drawing of white-vine decoration; on 1/5r is the pen-and-ink outline of an eight-line initial “Q”, also with outline drawing of white-vine decoration in pen-and-ink; other initials and paragraph marks supplied throughout in alternate red and blue up to 33/3r (f. 326r) - thereafter in red alone, and the decoration ceases on 33/9v (f. 332v). |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf and quire 36 (i.e. De venenis). |
