Zochis, Jacobus de: Canon, omnis utriusque sexus disputatum ac repetitum.
[Padua]: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho and Martinus de Septem Arboribus, 28 July 1472.
Fol. [1-410 5-158]. [128] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC iz00028000; GW M52111; Goff Z28; BMC VII 904 (IB. 29809); CIBN Z-15; BSB-Ink Z-46.
| GIP number: | Z2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.7 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 328 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 28 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 on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.5.9”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; green silk bookmark. Size: 294 x 210 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 287 x 199 mm. |
| Annotations: | "Quaestio" headings numbered "1" to "30" written in the margins in red ink in a 16th-century hand; washed-out marginal annotations in brown ink discernible in gatherings 1, 7, 8, and 9; occasional manicules and “nota” marks; manuscript foliation in brown ink (often cropped by binder). |
| Decoration: | Eight-line initial “O” on 1/1r supplied in red with faded brown and yellow pen decoration; seven-line initial “C” on 14/2r (f. 114r) supplied in red with brown and yellow pen decoration; occasional paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the final blank leaf. |
