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mei/02144741 Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.18 [02144741]

Glasgow, University Library (GB) : Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.18

ISTC No.ij00216000
AuthorJamblichus
TitleDe mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum. Tr: Marsilius Ficinus. Add: Proclus: In Platonicum Alcibiadem; De sacrificio et magia; Porphyrius: De divinis et daemonibus; Synesius: De Somniis; Psellus: De daemonibus; Priscianus et Marsilius Ficinus: In Theophrastum De sensu ... ; Alcinous: De doctrina Platonis; Speusippus: De Platonis definitionibus; Pythagoras: Aurea verba et symbola; Xenocrates: De morte; Marsilius Ficinus: De Voluptate
ImprintVenice : Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Sept. 1497
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectPhilosophy
Keywordsclassical; translation; collection; education
Periodclassical

Description of Copy

Copy Id02144741
Holding InstitutionGlasgow, University Library (GB)
ShelfmarkSp Coll Hunterian By.2.18
NoteBy.2.18
NoteVariants: a2 incorrectly signed {34}aiii{34} as in BM 15th cent. copy IB24446, not {34}aii{34} as in BM 15th cent. copy IB24445; K2r: final word is mis-spelled {34}abente{34} as in BM 15th cent. copy IB24445, not {34}absente{34} as in BM 15th cent. copy IB24446.
Size of leaves300 × 206 mm
Copy Features - NoteImperfections: wanting the blank leaf &10.
Electronic ReproductionGlasgow Incunabula Project See the description of this item and digitised pages on the Glasgow Incunabula Project's Website
Other IdentifierJ12 (Glasgow Incunabula Project)

Provenance 1498-1559

Provenance nameRanconet, Aimar de, 1498-1559 [Person] Ms. inscription.
NoteAimar de Ranconet (1498-1559), French humanist scholar - possible owner: inscription on a1r "S[um] bibliothecae Ranconeti [Ch?]arpentiae"

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 829 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 38 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.23r)

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 on front pastedown, with former shelfmark "A.5.20".
Binding noteBinding: France, 18th-century blue morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 308 x 216 mm.
decorationNoteDecoration: the margins of a2r have a decorative border of stylised red and blue trefoils arranged in a chequer pattern; initials throughout supplied in red and blue with reserved white; paragraph marks supplied in alternate red and blue throughout; capitals washed in yellow throughout.
msNoteAnnotations: fairly frequent marginal annotations and underlining in the same hand that wrote the provenance inscription; foliated in an early hand "1"-"120" from a2-R1; 16th-century shelfmark or inventory number "R.108" in ink on a1r; imprint details are added in manuscript below contents on title-page (a1r).

otherInformation

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

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  02144741

Glasgow, University Library (GB) : Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.18

ISTC No.ij00216000
AuthorJamblichus
TitleDe mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum. Tr: Marsilius Ficinus. Add: Proclus: In Platonicum Alcibiadem; De sacrificio et magia; Porphyrius: De divinis et daemonibus; Synesius: De Somniis; Psellus: De daemonibus; Priscianus et Marsilius Ficinus: In Theophrastum De sensu ... ; Alcinous: De doctrina Platonis; Speusippus: De Platonis definitionibus; Pythagoras: Aurea verba et symbola; Xenocrates: De morte; Marsilius Ficinus: De Voluptate
ImprintVenice : Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Sept. 1497
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectPhilosophy
Keywordsclassical; translation; collection; education
Periodclassical

Description of Copy

Copy Id02144741
Holding InstitutionGlasgow, University Library (GB)
ShelfmarkSp Coll Hunterian By.2.18
NoteBy.2.18
NoteVariants: a2 incorrectly signed {34}aiii{34} as in BM 15th cent. copy IB24446, not {34}aii{34} as in BM 15th cent. copy IB24445; K2r: final word is mis-spelled {34}abente{34} as in BM 15th cent. copy IB24445, not {34}absente{34} as in BM 15th cent. copy IB24446.
Size of leaves300 × 206 mm
Copy Features - NoteImperfections: wanting the blank leaf &10.
Electronic ReproductionGlasgow Incunabula Project See the description of this item and digitised pages on the Glasgow Incunabula Project's Website
Other IdentifierJ12 (Glasgow Incunabula Project)

Provenance

Provenance nameRanconet, Aimar de, 1498-1559 [Person] Ms. inscription.
NoteAimar de Ranconet (1498-1559), French humanist scholar - possible owner: inscription on a1r "S[um] bibliothecae Ranconeti [Ch?]arpentiae"

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 829 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769)

Provenance

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 38 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.23r)

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 on front pastedown, with former shelfmark "A.5.20".
Binding noteBinding: France, 18th-century blue morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 308 x 216 mm.
Decoration NoteDecoration: the margins of a2r have a decorative border of stylised red and blue trefoils arranged in a chequer pattern; initials throughout supplied in red and blue with reserved white; paragraph marks supplied in alternate red and blue throughout; capitals washed in yellow throughout.
Manuscript notesAnnotations: fairly frequent marginal annotations and underlining in the same hand that wrote the provenance inscription; foliated in an early hand "1"-"120" from a2-R1; 16th-century shelfmark or inventory number "R.108" in ink on a1r; imprint details are added in manuscript below contents on title-page (a1r).

Other Information

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