Accession number:
PML 38241
Published:
[Rome] : [Printer of Silius Italicus], [about 1470]
Description:
[178] leaves ; 29.5 x 20 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1944.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
No colophon.
Printed in type 1:108R.
Collation: [1-17¹⁰ 18⁸]: 178 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Dated by CIBN. Goff dates about 1471.
Checklist: "Dibdin Classics, II, 226."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 19 cm
Binding:
Modern full brown goatskin, blind-stamped in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (29.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Three contemporary/early-16th century marginal notations in text, including "Carte 178 quinterni 18" (leaf [18]/8v).
Provenance:
Unidentified inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified English sale catalogue description (no. 94, L.C. Harper?), tipped-in (front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Dec. 1944.
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