Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder): Historia naturalis.
Edited by Johannes Andreas de Bussis, bishop of Aleria.
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1472.
Fol. [112 28 3-810 912 10-1510 168 17-2710 286 29-3010 31-358 3610 3712]. [358] leaves (1, 357, and 358 blank).
ISTC ip00788000; GW M34326; Goff P788; BMC V 172 (IC. 19661); Bod-inc P-360; CIBN P-459; BSB-Ink P-601.
| GIP number: | P71 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.1.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Argelati (18th century): name “Argelati” on 1/1r - see Annotations. Unidentified owner: affixed to 1/1r is a paper label containing an unidentified monogram in pen-and-ink. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ab.4.12”. |
| 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; green silk bookmark; front flyleaf has watermark “T [tower surmounted by a cross] DUPVY FYN(?) || AUVERGNE 1742” (cf. Heawood 238); rear flyleaf has watermark of a bunch of grapes within a crowned circle. Size: 410 x 285 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 397 x 273 mm |
| Annotations: | Erased ownership(?) inscription in lower margin of 1/2r - unread under ultraviolet light; on 1/1r is a list signed “Argelati” of other 15th-century editions of Pliny’s Historia naturalis, which includes a reference to Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, 'Origine e progressi della stampa o sia dell’ arte impressoria' (Bologna: 1722). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the two final blank leaves. |
