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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
full ISTC record
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

Provenance nameHunter, William, 1718-1783 [Person] Purchased at Gaignat sale.
Dessain, Jean-Baptiste, 1730-1782 [Person] Acted as Hunter's agent at Gaignat sale.
University of Glasgow [Corporate body] 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

PlaceGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
Areae-uk-st
Provenance nameUniversity of Glasgow [Corporate body] Current Owner
NoteUniversity of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark "Aa.4.7".
Binding noteBinding: 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.
Manuscript notesAnnotations: very occasional evidence of early signatures; foliated (with one error) in a 17th/18th-century hand "1"-"314" from [a4]-[K12] (leaves [4]-[318]).

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2021-06-03 12:00:00

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  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
full ISTC record
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

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

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

PlaceGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
Areae-uk-st
Provenance nameUniversity of Glasgow [Corporate body] Current Owner
NoteUniversity of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark "Aa.4.7".
Binding noteBinding: 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.
Manuscript notesAnnotations: very occasional evidence of early signatures; foliated (with one error) in a 17th/18th-century hand "1"-"314" from [a4]-[K12] (leaves [4]-[318]).

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2021-06-03 12:00:00