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mei/02144677 Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.1.8 [02144677]

Glasgow, University Library (GB) : Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.1.8

ISTC No.ij00174000
AuthorJacobus de Voragine
TitleLegenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia [Italian] Legendario di Sancti (Tr: Niccolò Malermi)
ImprintVenice : Nicolaus Jenson, [between 1 July 1475 and 23 Feb. 1476]
Formatf°
Languageita
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SubjectHagiography
Keywordsliterature devotional; liturgy; translation
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02144677
Holding InstitutionGlasgow, University Library (GB)
ShelfmarkSp Coll Hunterian Bx.1.8
NoteBx.1.8
NotePrinter's pin-holes visible.
Size of leaves393 × 275 mm
Electronic ReproductionGlasgow Incunabula Project See the description of this item and digitised pages on the Glasgow Incunabula Project's Website
Other IdentifierJ10 (Glasgow Incunabula Project)

Provenance 1697-1768

Provenance nameGaignat, Louis Jean, 1697-1768 [Person] In book sale catalogue.
NoteLouis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 2782 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769)

provenance 1718-1783

ownerHunter, William, 1718-1783 Purchased at Gaignat sale.
Dessain, Jean-Baptiste, 1730-1782 Acted as Hunter's agent at Gaignat sale.
University of Glasgow Current Owner
noteWilliam Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 61 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.23v)

provenance

placenameGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
areae-uk-st
ownerUniversity of Glasgow Current Owner
noteUniversity of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark "Aa.4.7".
bindingNoteBinding: France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark; front and rear flyleaves have watermark of a fleur-de-lys above the date "1742". Size: 410 x 290 mm.
msNoteAnnotations: very occasional evidence of early signatures; foliated (with one error) in a 17th/18th-century hand "1"-"314" from [a4]-[K12] (leaves [4]-[318]).

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Last Edit2021-06-03 12:00:00

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copy

copyId02144677
holdingInstitutionIdGlasgowUL
shelfmarkSp Coll Hunterian Bx.1.8
holdingsNoteBx.1.8
notePrinter's pin-holes visible.
paperSize393 × 275 mm
electronicReproductionGlasgow Incunabula Project See the description of this item and digitised pages on the Glasgow Incunabula Project's Website
otherIdentifierJ10 ()

provenance

ownerGaignat, Louis Jean, 1697-1768 In book sale catalogue.
noteLouis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 2782 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769)

provenance

ownerHunter, William, 1718-1783 Purchased at Gaignat sale.
Dessain, Jean-Baptiste, 1730-1782 Acted as Hunter's agent at Gaignat sale.
University of Glasgow Current Owner
noteWilliam Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 61 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.23v)

provenance

placenameGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
areae-uk-st
ownerUniversity of Glasgow Current Owner
noteUniversity of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark "Aa.4.7".
bindingNoteBinding: France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark; front and rear flyleaves have watermark of a fleur-de-lys above the date "1742". Size: 410 x 290 mm.
msNoteAnnotations: very occasional evidence of early signatures; foliated (with one error) in a 17th/18th-century hand "1"-"314" from [a4]-[K12] (leaves [4]-[318]).

otherInformation

completeness1
Last Edit2021-06-03 12:00:00