Garlandia, Johannes de [pseudo-]: Composita verborum.
Commentary by Johannes Synthen.
Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 11 Jan. 1486.
4to. a-e6 f4. [34] leaves.
Woodcut initial and printer's device.
ISTC ig00075850; GW M1366110; BMC IX 213 (IA. 49743).
Entered under Synthen in BMC.
| GIP number: | G10 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.15 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | James Martyn/Martin (16th century): manuscript inscription [legible by ultraviolet lamp] on f4v “ad jacobum martyn est p[er]tinens iste libellus”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aw.11.11”. |
| Binding: | England, 20th-century blind-tooled red goatskin; rebound and restored by Anthony Gardner, Oct. 1967, with his apologia on rear free endpaper; new endpapers and flyleaves; replacing a quarter leather binding with marbled-paper boards of unrecorded date. Size: 192 x 140 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 185 x 134 mm. |
| Annotations: | Three brief marginal annotations (15th/16th century) on e6v; obliterated inscription on lower margin of a4r; 15th/16th-century manuscript foliation "1-34". |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
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