Accession number
PML 16105
Creator
Berlinghieri, Francesco, d. 1500.
Object title
Geographia / Di Francesco Berlinghieri Fiorentino in terza rima et lingua toscana distincta con le sue tavole in varii siti et provincie secondo la geographia et distinctione del tauole di Ptolomeo.
Published
[Florence] : [Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus], [not after 10 September 1482]
Description
[182] leaves, 60 unnumbered leaves of plates ; engravings (31 maps) ; 43 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from later title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Colophon (from second issue), leaf f10r: Impresso in Firenze per Nicolo Todescho & emendato con soma dili gentia dallo auctore.
With the author's dedication to Federigo, duke of Urbino, who died 10 September 1482 (CIBN).
PML Checklist dated [not after 1480].
Printed in Laurentii's type 4:114R.
In two issues, the second of which has an added bifolium with red-printed title page and tabula (quire [1]²) and final leaf with a register and a colophon, apparently in 16th-century types (Goff). Although in PML copy, leaf f10 is conjoint with leaf f1 and on same cardinal's hat paper found in rest of volume.
Sigantures: [1]²; aa¹⁰ bb-dd⁸ ee⁶ ff-gg⁸ hh⁶ ii⁴; a⁶ b¹⁰ c-d⁸; [2]⁴; e⁸; [3]⁴; f¹⁰; [4-34]²: 126, leaves ii4 and [3]/4 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Maps copied from Ptolemy, Rome, 1478 ed., with the addition of four "modern" maps (of Spain, France, Italy and Palestine), here found for the first time.
An adaptation in terza rima of Ptolemy's Geographia with additions by Marsilius Ficinus (Goff).
PML copy is second issue.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41.8 x 29 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Colophon (from second issue), leaf f10r: Impresso in Firenze per Nicolo Todescho & emendato con soma dili gentia dallo auctore.
With the author's dedication to Federigo, duke of Urbino, who died 10 September 1482 (CIBN).
PML Checklist dated [not after 1480].
Printed in Laurentii's type 4:114R.
In two issues, the second of which has an added bifolium with red-printed title page and tabula (quire [1]²) and final leaf with a register and a colophon, apparently in 16th-century types (Goff). Although in PML copy, leaf f10 is conjoint with leaf f1 and on same cardinal's hat paper found in rest of volume.
Sigantures: [1]²; aa¹⁰ bb-dd⁸ ee⁶ ff-gg⁸ hh⁶ ii⁴; a⁶ b¹⁰ c-d⁸; [2]⁴; e⁸; [3]⁴; f¹⁰; [4-34]²: 126, leaves ii4 and [3]/4 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Maps copied from Ptolemy, Rome, 1478 ed., with the addition of four "modern" maps (of Spain, France, Italy and Palestine), here found for the first time.
An adaptation in terza rima of Ptolemy's Geographia with additions by Marsilius Ficinus (Goff).
PML copy is second issue.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41.8 x 29 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century Italian vellum over paper boards (43 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant title
Checklist title: Geografia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized; illuminated initials likely added in 19th-century along with Manzoni armorial (leaf aa2r). Annotations: 2 manicules in margins (rather large and detailed).
Provenance
Count Giacomo Manzoni (1816-1889), booklabel (front pastedown) and illuminated armorial (leaf aa1r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from De Marinis & Co., July 1909.
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