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.” 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. |
