Aratus: Phaenomena (translated by Rufius Festus Avienus).
Add: Dionysius Periegetes: De situ orbis (translated by Avienus). Avienus: Ora maritima. Aratus: Phaenomena (translated by Julius Caesar Germanicus, with commentary). Aratus: Phaenomena (translated by Marcus Tullius Cicero). Quintus Serenus Sammonicus: Liber medicinalis. Edited by Victor Pisanus.
Venice: Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, 25 Oct. 1488.
4to. a10 b-p8. [122] leaves (1, 58, 121, and 122 blank).
ISTC ia01432000; Goff A1432; BMC V 294 (IA. 21262); Bod-inc A-639; GW 3131.
Author heading and title from CIBN (A-495). ISTC, Bod-inc, GW enter under Avienus.
Shelf-mark: |
RCPSG: Bookstore SER. |
Variants: |
The setting of p6r and p6v follows GW’s main transcription, not GW Anm. |
Note: |
Signature o1 erased and signature o2 partially erased. |
Provenance: |
Franciscus Garsianus (16th century): inscription in a humanist hand on p6v “Franciscus Garsianus” followed by abbreviations “.I.” (Iurisperitus) “et C.R.L.” (Canonicus Regularis Lateranensis). Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow: armorial bookplate on front pastedown “Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow” bearing superseded shelfmark in ink “81 d 11” (scored through); a later armorial bookplate of the College on recto of front free endpaper; probably purchased by the College in 1811/1812, since the Faculty minutes for 2 Dec. 1811 show that the Library was granted £80 in addition to its usual budget, for purchasing “a selection of books of the older medical authors” and the minutes for 8 Oct. 1812 note that “a very valuable addition has been made amounting to nearly two hundred and fifty volumes bought in the course of the year with the funds granted by a vote of the Faculty”; source unknown; first appears in 'Catalogue of books in the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow' (Glasgow: 1817). |
Binding: |
19th-century half calf, marbled paper-covered boards; marbled endpapers; yellow-edged leaves. Size: 209 x 153 mm. |
Leaf size: |
204 x 148 mm. |
Annotations: |
None. |
Decoration: |
None. |
Imperfections: |
Contains the text of Serenus only, i.e. wanting all before n7; also wanting the final blank leaf p8. |