Accession number
PML 19372.1
Creator
Pliny, the Younger.
Published
Impressae Parisius : expensis honestorum virorum Francisci Regnault & Egidii Gourmont, MDX septimo Calen. Februarii [26 January 1510].
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan,
Description
[124] leaves ; 16.5 cm (8vo)
Notes
Title printed in black and red.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r8r.
Printer's mark of Gilles de Gourmont on title page.
Signatures: a-r⁸.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r8r.
Printer's mark of Gilles de Gourmont on title page.
Signatures: a-r⁸.
Binding
Early 16th-century French panel-stamped (front board, with 4 saints: John the Evangelist, Sts. Barbara, Catherine, and Nicholas, signed PG in lower 2 panels) and blind-rooled calf over wooden boards, by Pierre Gipot; rebacked. Plain endbands; plain paper
Variant title
Epistolae Plinii multum utiles ac necessariae adolescentibus latine loqui cupientibus
Provenance
Christianus Ehrhard, signature, 16th/17th century (title page); unidentified shelfmark: d. 18 (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Olschki, Aug. 1912.
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