Accession number
PML 20719.2
Creator
Bienatus, Aurelius.
Object title
Incipiunt Aurelii Beinati eruditissimi elegantiaru[m] epithomata in sex libros Laurentii valle disertissimi.
Published
Impressum Neapoli : Crista[n]n[us] Preller, Anno domini Mcccclxxxxi. xxi. die mensis Marcii [21 March 1491]
Description
[60] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a3r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h5v, with Preller's name in device.
Printed in Preller's type 1:86G.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g-h⁶: 60 leaves, leaves a1 and h6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.6 cm (trimmed).
PML copy missing 1 leaf: h6 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf h5v, with Preller's name in device.
Printed in Preller's type 1:86G.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g-h⁶: 60 leaves, leaves a1 and h6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.6 cm (trimmed).
PML copy missing 1 leaf: h6 (blank).
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports for the Earl of Pembroke. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Laurentii Vallae elegantiarum epitoma
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: 17th/18th-century and foliation in L-bracket, trimmed with rebinding.
Provenance
Thomas Herbert (1656-1733), Earl of Pembroke, shelf mark: Kq.23 (front endleaf 1 verso) and binding (with pencil inscription for spine label, leaf a2r of Dati); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, lot 80; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Tammaso De Marinis, Sept. 1919.
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