Regimie[n]to de los principes.

Accession number:

PML 38941

Author:

Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316.

Published:

Seuilla : A espensas de maestre Conrrado Aleman: y Melchior Gurrizo ... inpresso por Meynardo Ungut alemano: y Stanislao Polono, [20 October 1494].

Description:

[2], iij-ccxlix, [7] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1947.

Notes:

Title from xylographic half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf H9v: Fenesce el libro: intitulado Regimiento de principes. Impresso e[n]la muy noble [y] muy lealcibdad de Seuilla. A espensas de maestre Conrrado aleman: [y] Melchior gurrizo: mercadores de libros Fue inpresso por Meynardo Ungut alemano: [y] Stanislao Polono: compañeros. Acabaron se a veynte dias del mes de Octubre Año del señor de mill [y] quatorcientos [y] nouenta [y] quatro. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Ungut and Polonus's types 2:112G, 4:150G, and 5:98G.
Signatures: a-z A-G⁸ H¹⁰; AA⁶: 256 leaves, leaves H10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by Juan García de Castrojeriz.
1 woodcut with xylographic title, leaf a1r. Printed initials.
Incipit, leaf a2r, printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.5 cm.

Binding:

16th/17th-century Spanish blind-rolled full calf over paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges. 2 ties, missing.

Variant Title:

Regimiento de los principes

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified cypher: CH (rear pastedown, at bottom-gutter corner); Gabriel Sanchez, bookseller of Madrid, ink stamp (front endleaf 1 verso); C.W. Dyson Perrins (1864-1958), armorial booklabel (front pastdown), his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 4 Nov. 1946, lot 304 to E.Ph. Goldschmidt for: Pierpont Morgan Library, Jan. 1947.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books