Pius II, Pont. Max.: De captione urbis Constantinopolitanae.
[Rome: Johannes Gensberg, ca. 1474]
4to. [14]. [4] leaves.
ISTC ip00658000; GW M33604; Goff P658; CIBN P-365; BSB-Ink P-498.
Pellechet and IGI assign to Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia.
| GIP number: | P47 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The fourth of four incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Pius II, Pont. Max., De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia. [Rome: Johannes Gensberg, ca. 1474] (2) Pius II, Pont. Max., De curialium miseria. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck or Wendelinus de Wila, not after Aug.] 1475. (3) Tractatus quidam de Turcis. [Rome: Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia, ca. 1474-75]. |
| Provenance: | Provenance: Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 2231 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 19 livres 2 sous; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 25v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “A.9.27”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 206 x 141 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 200 x 137 mm. |
| Annotations: | Quire numbered in ink very faintly "13" in top outer corner of 1/1r. |
| Decoration: | Two-line initial “M” supplied in colour (the colour entirely washed out) on 1/1r. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
