Petrus de Abano: Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum. Add: De venenis. Mathaeus Silvaticus: De lapide begaar ex Pandectis. Petrus de Carariis: De terminatione venenorum.
Venice: Gabriele di Pietro, for Thomas de Tarvisio, [after 5 Mar.] 1476.
Fol. a10 b-d8 e-f10 F10 g10 G6 H4 h-y8 z6 [et]6 [con]8 [rum]6 aa-dd6 ee-ff8 gg10. [280] leaves, the first and last blank.
ISTC ip00432000; GW M31852; Goff P432; BMC V 201 (IC. 19928); CIBN P-206; BSB-Ink P-309.
GIP number: | P29 |
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.1.1 (see main library entry for this item) |
Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
Provenance: | Guilhelmus Winshemius (18th century): inscription on a2r “Ex libris M. Guilhelmj Vuinshemij Francj” and on gg9r “Sum M. Guilhelmj Vuinshemij Francj”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Be.4.15”. |
Binding: | 18th-century mottled calf, covers bordered with a double gold fillet; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; sprinkled red-edged leaves; front and rear flyleaves have watermark initials “D I S”. Size: 407 x 285 mm. |
Leaf size: | 401 x 275 mm. |
Annotations: | Error in the signature of g4 has been corrected in pen-and-ink (probably in the printer’s office - cf. the BMC copy); several sections (Differentia 16-23, 87-100, 155-172) have extensive marginal annotations and underlining in the hand of the owner, Guilhelmus Winshemius; occasional marginal annotations elsewhere in a different 18th-century hand; 18th-century price “1 11 6” in pencil on first front flyleaf. |
Decoration: | Fourteen-line initial “U” on a2r, col. 1, supplied in red and blue with reserved white and decorated with red pen-work which extends into the inner margin; a seven-line initial “Q” on a4v supplied in similar style; other initials and paragraph marks throughout supplied in alternate red and blue; running headings underlined in red. |
Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |