Polentonus, Sicco: Vita S. Antonii de Padua.
Add: Sixtus IV: Bulla, 12 March 1471/72 in favour of the church of St Anthony at Padua, "Immensa divinae bonitatis".
[Padua]: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho, 11 June 1476.
4to. a10 b-e8 f4. [46] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ip00883000; Goff P883; BMC VII 907.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 2794 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 66 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.23v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “A.9.30”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; red silk bookmark. Size: 207 x 145 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 202 x 140 mm. |
| Annotations: | Pointing hands on a5v and f2v. |
| Decoration: | A six-line initial ‘D’ on a1r is supplied in pink with red and green infill and is set on a square gold ground, from which stylized foliage decoration in pink, blue and gold extends into the inner margin; the lower margin of a1r has a blue roundel (empty but presumably meant to receive an owner’s initials or coat of arms), from which similar stylized foliage decoration extends across the lower margin. A three-line initial ‘S’ on e8v is supplied in gold on a rectangular blue ground decorated with white dots, the spaces enclosed by the initial decorated in patterned green; other initials supplied in red or blue throughout, all with calligraphic decoration in red or blue; text enclosed within red ink rules. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf f4. |
