Pius II, Pont. Max: Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia. Descriptio urbis Viennensis.
Edited by Nicolaus von Wyle.
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 July 1486.
4to. a6 b-z8 aa-hh8. [246] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC ip00719000; GW M33695; Goff P719; BMC II 430 (IB. 7356); Bod-inc P-320; CIBN P-414; BSB-Ink P-522.
Includes Pius II: De curialium miseria. Poggius Florentinus: Epistola de balneis; Epistola de morte Hieronymi Pragensis. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus: De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda (a Latin version of Boccaccio, Decameron IV.1).
| GIP number: | P57 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bm8-g.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Joannes Coyet (16th/17th century): inscription on a1r “Joannes Coyet filius Francisci ...”; listing of numerous Coyet family members on hh8v together with a rough pen-and-ink drawing of the family crest captioned “familiæ δειγμα”. John Tran (ca. 1645-1704), Regent at Glasgow University from 1669: see below. University of Glasgow: included in a list of ‘Books bought at Mr Tran’s auction 1704’ in Library accounts from the Clerks’ Press (Glasgow University Archives 58019/13); price recorded as £4.4.0 [i.e. £ Scots]; shelfmark “Ay: f:4 n:5” on a2r matching entry in ‘Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691’ (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313); inscription on a2r “Ex Libris Bibliothece Universitatis Glasguensis Empt[us] propriis Academice sumptibus 1704 Jo: Stirling Principal”; shelfmark “A.12.3” on bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, ‘Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis’ (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | England, 20th-century full brown goatskin, with new pastedowns, by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Nov. 1965; replacing a 17th-century spattered brown calf binding; earlier flyleaves and sprinkled red edging preserved; binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown. Size: 236 x 170 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 226 x 162 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional brief marginal annotations, corrections and underlining in a 16th-century hand; mottoes “Virtute, non aliter” in an early hand on hh8r (lightly scored through) and “Age qua non clarus agas” in a different early hand on a2r; 17th-century inscription in Latin and English referring to Aeneas Sylvius on a1r. |
| Decoration: | On b2r an eleven-line initial ‘I’ is supplied in blue and green with added black and white tracery and set on a square crimson and gold ground, the gilt with punch-dotting; other initials supplied in alternate red and blue; paragraph marks in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
