Hylton, Walter: Scala perfectionis [English].  The ladder of perfection.  Vita mixta [English].  Mixed life.

[Westminster]:  Wynkyn de Worde, 1494.
Fol.   a⁴ b-q⁸ r⁶ ſ⁴ (ſ4+χ1) A⁸ B⁶.   [149] leaves.
Leaf i1 is signed “hi”, leaves m1-4 are signed “ki”-“kiiii”, leaf ſ2 is signed “t2”.
Woodcut;  woodcut initials;  woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC ih00564000;  GW 12476;  Goff H564;  BMC XI 190 (IB. 55165);  CIBN H-338.

GIP number:	H49
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.2.7 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	The signature errors in quire m are corrected in pen-and-ink.
Note:	Early repairs with parchment strips to several marginal tears.
Provenance:	James West (1703-1772), politician and antiquary:  lot 1877 in Bibliotheca Westiana (1773). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased at the West sale for £2.12.6 according to the annotated copy of the West sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Mu31-a.9). University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “M.3.11”.
Binding:	England, 18th-century speckled brown calf;  covers decorated with a border formed by a double gold fillet and a blind floral roll;  two of the six spine compartments have dark green leather title labels added;  the remaining four spine compartments have a red leather covering added, which is tooled with a “Gothic window” design;  dark blue paper pastedowns;  slight evidence of manuscript lettering on fore-edge.   Size: 297 x 213 mm.
Leaf size:	285 x 200 mm. (except for a2-4, b1:  285 x 188 mm.)
Annotations:	Nota marks in margins of e1r and n4r;  manicule on m6r;  18th-century reference in ink to “Ames 25” on first front flyleaf, above which, in pencil, is an 18th-century price “2-2-0”.
Decoration:	None.
Imperfections:	Wanting a1, d7, and (as in the majority of recorded copies) the last two quires A and B (Vita mixta).