Accession number
PML 25857
Creator
Aesop.
Object title
Facecie morales Laure[n]tii valle[n]sis, alias Esopus gre[a]cus, p[er] d[omi]n[u]m Laure[n]tiu[m] translatus. Incipit fe[o]liciter.
Published
[Deventer] : [Jacobus de Breda], [not before 10 April 1497]
Description
[6] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Title from leaf A1r, with Breda's device.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Breda's types 3:180G, 4C:80G, and 8:100G.
Signatures: A⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Laurentius Valla.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.4 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Breda's types 3:180G, 4C:80G, and 8:100G.
Signatures: A⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Laurentius Valla.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.4 cm.
Binding
Modern full blue goatskin over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Facecie morales Laurentii Vallensis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: One contemporary marginal note (leaf A2v only).
Provenance
Walter Sneyd (1809-1888), booklabel (front pastedown), his auction, Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, July 1928.
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