Tortellius, Johannes: Orthographia.
Edited by Hieronymus Bononius.
Venice: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 12 Nov. 1484.
Fol. A8 B-M6 a-b8 c-u6. [198] leaves, the first and last blank.
ISTC it00399000; GW M47221; Goff T399; BMC V 357 (IB. 21974); Bod-inc T-225; CIBN T-295; BSB-Ink T-388.
| GIP number: | T32 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.3.19 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Ebenezer Brown (d.1828), M.D., Inspector General of Hospitals: presented to the Hunterian Library in March, 1852 (cf. University of Glasgow Library, Museum records, MR37/14, 15) by Miss Marjory Ettles of Stirling from the library of her late brother-in-law, Dr Ebenezer Brown, a matriculated student in the Greek Class at Glasgow University in 1786 (cf. James Coutts, 'A history of the University of Glasgow from its foundation in 1451 to 1909', pp. 404-5; W. Innes Addison, 'The matriculation albums of the University of Glasgow from 1728 to 1858', no. 4573). Marjory Ettles (fl. 1852) of Stirling: see above. University of Glasgow: presented in 1852 (see above); Hunterian Museum bookplate, with former shelfmark “E.2.4” (a later addition to the Hunterian Library with no connection to William Hunter’s original collection). |
| Binding: | 16th/17th-century parchment; manuscript title on spine; manuscript shelfmarks “O Cãc. 2” in top compartment and “N [...]” in bottom compartment; see Bg.3.5 (Paulus de Sancta Maria, Scrutinium scripturarum. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not after May 1470]) for similar shelfmarks. Size: 302 x 216 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 298 x 214 mm. |
| Annotations: | Early ownership inscription on A2r beginning “Liber ad vſum [...]” (remainder overwritten and unread); marginal keywords on p3r; u6 foliated “196”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves A1 and u6. |
