Silvaticus, Matthaeus: Liber pandectarum medicinae.
Edited by Angelus Cato.
Naples: [Printer of Silvaticus], 1 Apr. 1474.
Fol. [16 210 38 410 5-68 7-810 9-108 1110 128 13-1610 178 1810 198 2010 21-238 24-2510 26-288 29-3010 318 32-3410 35-368 37-3810]. [342] leaves, 6 and 7 blank.
ISTC is00510000; GW M42131; Goff S510; BMC VI 859 (IC. 29360); CIBN S-263.
Assigned by Fava and Bresciano to Arnaldus de Bruxella.
| GIP number: | S37 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.1.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | The blank leaf 1/6 is bound at the beginning of quire 1. |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Variant: | 1/1r, line 1: “... ſecundū ... ſimplex ...” not as in BMC “... Secundū ... Simplex ...” |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1165 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 57 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ac.4.5”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark; bunch of grapes watermark on front and rear flyleaves. Size: 420 x 282 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 407 x 264 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations in a 15th/16th-century hand; number “685” in ink in a 17th/18th-century hand on 1/1r and the same hand has supplied an occasional (inaccurate) foliation. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf 2/1 (f. 7), and 38/10 (f. 342) containing the Tabula. |
