Patritius, Franciscus: Ecloga de Christi nativitate.
[Padua: Printer of Lucianus (H 10276), ca. 1482]
4to. [a4]. [4] leaves.
ISTC ip00155000; GW M29826; Goff P155; BMC VII 926 (IA. 30085); BSB-Ink P-42.
Printer and date from ISTC. Proctor 7137 tentatively assigned to Vicenza: Leonardus Achates, n.d.
| GIP number: | P4 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.22 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The fourth of five incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Canis, Johannes Jacobus, De ludo equestri Patavii ad Ludovicum Fuscarenum carmen. [Padua: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, ca. 1472] (2) Canis, Johannes Jacobus, Ad Nicolaum Canalem classem contra Turcos ducentem carmen. [Padua: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, ca. 1472] (3) Pius II, Pont. Max., Epistola ad Mahumetem. [Padua: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, before 1474] (5) Canis, Johannes Jacobus, De modo studendi in utroque iure. [Padua: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho], 1 Oct. 1476. |
| Provenance: | Robert Hoblyn, (1710-1756), politician: Hoblyn’s acquisition note “3s(λ/1745/6” on front pastedown; Hoblyn sale, 2 Mar. 1778 onwards; lot 2907 in 'Bibliotheca Hoblyniana ...' (London: Baker & Leigh, 1778). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Hoblyn sale for £3.7.0 according to the annotated BL copy of the Hoblyn sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 11 (4). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Be.8.30”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century speckled calf decorated with a double gold fillet and a blind floral roll; gold-tooled spine with red leather title label “OPUS / CULA / IOHAN / IACOBI / CANIS”; traces of manuscript lettering on fore-edge and lower edge. Size: 208 x 144 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 200 x 137 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
