Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistola ad Mahumetem.
[Padua: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, before 1474]
4to. [1]2. [2] leaves.
ISTC ip00699600; H 178*; IGI 7764; BSB-Ink P-546.
Date from ISTC and IGI; BSB-Ink dates ca. 1473.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.22 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The third of five incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Canis, Johannes Jacobus, De ludo equestri Patavii ad Ludovicum Fuscarenum Carmen. [Padua: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, ca. 1472] (2) Canis, Johannes Jacobus, Ad Nicolaum Canalem classem contra Turcos ducentem carmen. [Padua: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, ca. 1472] (4) Patritius, Franciscus, Ecloga de Christi nativitate. [Padua: Printer of Lucianus (H 10276), ca. 1482] (5) Canis, Johannes Jacobus, De modo studendi in utroque iure. [Padua: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho], 1 Oct. 1476. |
| Provenance: | Robert Hoblyn, (1710-1756), politician: Hoblyn’s acquisition note '3s(λ/1745/6' and shelf-mark "F7-7" on front pastedown; 'Bibliotheca Hoblyniana: sive, catalogus librorum, juxta exemplar, quod manu suâ maximâ ex parte descriptum reliquit Robertus Hoblyn ...' (Londini: 1769), p. 274; sale 'Bibliotheca Hobyliniana ... ' (1778) lot 2907. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased at the Hoblyn sale for £3.7.0; see the annotated British Library copy of the sale catalogue. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian bookplate on front pastedown with former shelf-mark "Be.8.30". |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century speckled calf; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet and blind decorative-roll border; gold-tooled spine, red leather title label; traces of manuscript lettering on fore-edge and lower edge. Size: 208 x 144 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 199 x 137 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
