Phalaris [pseudo-]: Epistolae [Latin].

Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus (Aretinus).

Sant'Orso:  Johannes de Reno, 1475.
4to.   [1-68 74].   [52] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ip00555000; GW M32892; Goff P555; BMC VII 1027 (IA. 30911); Bod-inc P-246; CIBN P-290.

GIP number: P39
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.39 (see main library entry for this item)
Variant: [a1r] (leaf [1r)], lines 3-4:  “... EPIS||TVLAS ...” not as BMC “... EPI||STVLAS ...”
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 “Ay.7.1”.
Binding: Italy (?), 17th/18th-century parchment;  manuscript spine title;  green-edged leaves.   Size:  206 x 152 mm.
Leaf size: 200 x 150 mm.
Annotations: Early signatures “a-d” “f-g” added in brown ink at lower outer corner of recto leaves;  “nota” mark on [1/4r].
Decoration: None.
Imperfections: Wanting quires [s] (ff. 33-40) and the final blank leaf.

 

Title incipit of Phalaris [pseudo-]: Epistolae [Latin]