Serrata, Leonardo della: Gracchus et Poliscena comoedia.
Schussenried: [Printer of 'Gracchus et Poliscena'], 1478.
Fol. [18 26]. [14] leaves.
ISTC ib01245000; GW 5610; Goff B1245; BMC II 568 (IB. 10403); Bod-inc B-574; CIBN B-882; BSB-Ink B-943
Note: Attributed to Leonardus Brunus Aretinus but the true author is Leonardo della Serrata; see Giorgio Nonni, ‘Documenti intorno all’ umanista vercellese Leonardo della Serratta’, Giornale italiano di filologia, NS 5 (1974), pp. 278-94; Heinz-Werner Nörenberg, ‘Leonardo [Brunis] Poliscena und ihre Stellung in der Tradition der römischen Komödie’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 24 (1975), pp. 1-28. The work is also known as ‘Calphurnia et Gurgulio comoedia’.
| GIP number: | S30 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.3.22 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 2/6v (f.14v), line 15 (colophon): “... jn monaſterio ...” as in BMC and GW, not “... in monadſterio ...” as in Bod-inc. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1736 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769) – where colour of binding described as “mar. r.” NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 134 livres. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 63 livres; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25r) – where colour of binding described as “M: Bl:” University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmarks “Au.4.3” and “Bx.2.22”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; flyleaves have watermark of a suspended post-horn within a shield surmounted by a French crown - below which “FIN 1758” - and a countermark with the names N. Berube and G. Derouen. Size: 294 x 210 mm. |
| Leaf size: | Leaf size: 288 x 203 mm. |
| Annotations: | Number “3” in ink in an early hand at extreme lower outer corner of 1/1r and a cropped number "4" on 2/1r (f.9r), probably indicating that this text had previously been bound up with another or other texts. |
| Decoration: | Text enclosed within red ink rules throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
