Tibullus, Albius: Elegiae.
Add: Propertius: Elegiae. Catullus: Carmina. Statius: Silvae. Guarinus Veronensis (= Benvenutus de Campesanis): Hexastichum. Hieronymus Squarzaficus: Vitae Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii. Ovidius: Elegia de morte Tibulli.
[Venice: Vindelinus de Spira], 1472.
4to. [1-78 88 (-8/1) 9-108 11-126 13-158 16-176 188 192 20-248 25-266]. [189] leaves, 32, 127, 128, 188 and 189 blank; stub of 8/1 visible.
ISTC it00366400; GW M47056; BMC V 161 (IB. 19550); Bod-inc T-205; CIBN C-181; BSB-Ink T-344.
| GIP number: | T27 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.18 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | This copy is bound up differently from the copies described in BMC and Bod-inc in that quires 13-17 (ff. 92-127) - i.e. the Catullus and preliminary matter - are bound at the beginning. |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 1598 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 200 livres 2 sous; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “B.8.17”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 284 x 200 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 275 x 190 mm. |
| Annotations: | Traces of early manuscript signatures in some quires e.g. “f4” at lower right-hand corner of 2/4r (f. 12r) - showing that the order of contents (as noted above) is from an early date; occasional instances of name of the poet added at top right hand corner of rectos; brief early marginal annotation "op[er]a oratij” on 26/4v (f. 187v); occasional “nota” marks. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the final blank leaf. |
