Item talk:Q30711

Glasgow BU:

Provenance:
Juan de la Viega (17th/18th century): “a Juan de la Vjega” written twice on title-page.
Antoine Benjamin Morin d’Hérouville, Danish Consul General at Naples from 1766 to 1771: lot 1549 at the Morin d’Hérouville sale, London, Leigh & Sotheby, 9 Mar. 1780.
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased at the Morin d’Hérouville sale for £0.7.6 according to the BL annotated copy of the sale catalogue (shelfmark S.C.S. 13(3)). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807, with Hunterian Museum bookplate and booklabel on front pastedown with earlier shelfmark 'W.6.17'.

Binding: Spain, 18th-century vellum, 'Diaz de Albey' and date '1499' gold-tooled on spine and washed with colour in imitation of leather labels; decorated (paste-paper) pastedowns; red-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Flyleaves have watermark of an anchor within a circle, below which are the letters A M. Size: 213 x 148 mm.
Leaf size: 204 x 142 mm.

Ms. annotations: some marginal scribbles (17th/18th century) in Spanish.

Imperfections: wanting the final blank A8; leaves a1 (title-page) and a2 damaged and repaired, with some loss of letters; worming in leaves a8-c1 with some loss of letters.