Accession number:
PML 34889.3
Published:
[Padua] : [Laurentius Canozius, de Lendenaria], [approximately 1473-1474]
Description:
[24] leaves ; 45 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1938.
Notes:
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Canozi's types 1:91/92G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁴]: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 43.5 x 27.5 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter red goatskin, with red cloth sides, over paper boards (45 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, preserving previous endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary northern Italian/Bologna illuminated foliate initials, alternating red and blue rubrication, running headlines (with triangular puncti), and paragraph marks (C-type, many with fleur-de-lis finials). Commentaries numbered in margin. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), signature and annotations, 2 May 1799 (front endleaf 3 recto), purchased at "Egerton's sale" for £17.17.0, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 191 for £13.0.0; Charles Walker Clark (1871-1933), of San Mateo, CA, collection sold by Celia Tobin (his ex-wife) through Rosenbach and Fleming; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach Co., April 1938.
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