Dioscorides: De materia medica [Greek].
Add: [Pseudo-] Dioscorides: De venenis, De venenatis animalibus [Greek]. Nicander: Theriaca; Alexipharmaca; Scholia [Greek].
[Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, after 8 July 1499]
Fol. *6 α-ο8 π10 Α-Δ8 Ε6 2α10. [184] leaves (π10 blank). The signatures in the first quire are printed as “*”.
ISTC id00260000; GW 8435; Goff D260; BMC V 560 (IB. 24488); Bod-inc D-103; CIBN D-165; BSB-Ink D-183; Ahmanson-Murphy 31.
As dated by CIBN.
| GIP number: | D22 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bh.3.20 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum book-plate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Al.3.12”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century speckled calf; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border; gold-tooled spine; marbled-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; green silk bookmark. Size: 310 x 212 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 304 x 204 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
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