Papias: Vocabularium.
Preliminaries: Boninus Mombritius: Epistola lectori.
Milan: Dominicus de Vespolate, 12 Dec. 1476.
Fol. A-I8 k8 L-N8 Nn-Pp8 Qq12 O-P8 q8 R-S8 T8+1 (T2+1) V-Z8 &8 [us]8 [rum]8 aa8 a4. [257] leaves, 140 and 257 blank. Signatures stamped in.
ISTC ip00077500; GW M29304; BMC VI 732 (IC. 26285); Bod-inc P-021; CIBN P-22.
| GIP number: | P3 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.1.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Many of the stamped-in signatures cropped. |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Guilielmus Zonca (early 16th century): inscription on A2r “Conuentus fratrum sancti Stephani de Bergomo or[din]is Predicator[um] Dono d[omi]ni Guilielmi Zonche.” Bergamo, Dominicans, S. Stephanus (later S. Dominicus): see above. John Savage (1673-1747), scholar and Church of England clergyman: lot 334 in 'A catalogue of the libraries ... of the late John Savage, D.D. vicar of Clothal, Hertfordshire ... and of the late Savage Tyndall, D.D. vicar of Barking in Essex' (London: Samuel Baker, 1763). Savage Tyndall (ordained 1734, rector of Elmley, near Sittingbourne, 1751), Church of England clergyman: see above. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Savage & Tyndall sale for £0.5.0 according to the annotated BL copy of the sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S.3*(8). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ap.1.17”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century parchment over millboards; gold-tooled red leather title label on spine; centre leaves of each quire guarded with thin parchment strips. Size: 397 x 280 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 395 x 276 mm. |
| Annotations: | Evidence of early manuscript signatures in some quires; very occasional marginal annotations in a 16th/17th century hand. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves Qq12 and a4. |
