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: Philippus Pincius, [1 June?] 1496.
Fol. a-m6 n8. [80] leaves, the last blank, 2-79 numbered “II” - “lxxviii” with errors.
Woodcut initials.
ISTC ip00611000; Goff P611; BMC V 497; Bod-inc P-275.
The colophon reads: 'primo kal'. Iunii'.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.2.17 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The second of two items bound together. Bound with Cato, Marcus Porcius, et al., Libri de re rustica. Paris: Josse Bade, 1529 (P. Renouard, 'Imprimeurs & libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle', vol. 2, no. 611). |
| Provenance: | Robertus Bertoul (16th century), possible owner: the first work in the volume, 'Libri de re rustica' (1529), has the inscriptions “Robertus Bertoul” on the title-page and “Sum Robertj Bertoul” on the final leaf of the index. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Au.2.10”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century mottled calf decorated with triple gold fillets; gold-tooled spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves; front free endpaper has watermark initial “G”, front and rear flyleaves have watermark initials “BF”. Size: 315 x 213 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 303 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
