Priscianus: Opera.
Edited by Benedictus Brognolus.
Venice: [Jacobus de Fivizzano, Lunensis], for Marcus de Comitibus and Gerardus Alexandrinus, 1476.
Fol. a-n10 o-y8 aa-ii8 kk-oo10 pp-qq8 rr10. [350] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC ip00965000; GW M35384; Goff P965; BMC V 242 (IB. 20463); Bod-inc P-454; CIBN P-597.
| GIP number: | P89 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Contents: | De octo partibus orationis; De constructione; De duodecim carminibus; De numeris, De ponderibus et mensuris; De versibus comicis; De declinationibus. Add: [Pseudo-] Priscianus: De accentibus. [Pseudo-] Hermogenes: De praeexercitamentis rhetorices. Rufinus Antiochensis: De metris comicis; De litteraturis; De compositione et metris oratorum. Dionysius Periegetes: De situ orbis. Translated by Priscianus. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1395 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 39 livres 19 sous; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.23r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “B.7.15”. |
| 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; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 288 x 205 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 279 x 192 mm. |
| Annotations: | 18th-century shelfmark “Q.2.” in ink on a2r. |
| Decoration: | Seven-line initial “C” on a2r supplied in blue with white tracery on a square gold ground, the body of the initial filled with entwined branches and leaves in purple and blue; principal initials supplied in blue and gold with red and blue pen-work embellishment; other initials and paragraph marks supplied in blue or red; running book numbers “I”-“XVIII” in red and blue up to quire kk. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
