Saliceto, Guilelmus de: De salute corporis.
Add: Johannes de Turrecremata: De salute animae. Pius II: De remedio amoris. Pro laude Homeri prefatio. Pindarus Thebanus: Iliados epitome [Ilias latina]. Pro laude Homeri preclara illustrium virorum testimonia; Epitaphia varia; Homoneae epitaphium.
[The Netherlands: Prototypography, not after 1472]
Fol. [1-212]. [24] leaves, the first blank.
BMC assigns to Utrecht, ‘Printer of the text of the Speculum’. Dated [ca.1468/9] in P. Amelung, ‘Die niederländischen Inkunabeln der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart’ in ‘Hellinga: Festschrift / Feestbundel / Mélanges. Forty-three studies in bibliography presented to ... Wytze Hellinga ... 1978’ (Amsterdam: 1980), no. 59, p. 22.
ISTC is00029500; GW M39452; BMC IX 4 (IB. 47018).
| GIP number: | S2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.24 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1173 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 33 livres 2 sous; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “An.4.19”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century green paper-covered boards, leather spine with gilt title label; red-edged leaves; marbled endpapers. Size 265 x 190 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 262 x 185 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red, capital strokes in faded yellow. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf and 2/3-12 (ff.15-24). |
