Philelphus, Franciscus: Orationes cum quibusdam aliis eiusdem operibus.
Add: [Pseudo-] Aristoteles: Rhetorica ad Alexandrum. Translated by Franciscus Philelphus; Plutarchus: Apophthegmata. Translated by Franciscus Philelphus; Galenus: Introductorium ad medicinam principiis. Translated by Georgius Valla.
Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 28 Mar. 1491.
4to. a-u8 x6. [1], ii-clxvi leaves.
ISTC ip00609000; GW M33051; Goff P609; BMC V 431 (IA. 23703); CIBN P-325; BSB-Ink P-447.
| GIP number: | P43 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.34 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | La Baume le Blanc, Louis César de (1708-1780), duc de La Vallière; La Vallière sale 1767; lot 3657 in G.F. de Bure, 'Catalogue des livres provenans de la bibliothèque de M.L.D.D.L.V.', 2 vols (Paris: 1767). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the La Vallière sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 6 livres; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f7v); price confirmed in the priced copy of De Bure’s 'Catalogue' in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Sp Coll 2044-5). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Be.8.4”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark. Size: 211 x 149 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 205 x 142 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional underlining in quires e and f; early manuscript corrections on f1v, f3v, f4v. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
