Accession number
PML 22106
Creator
Boethius, -524.
Object title
Arithmetica boetii.
Published
Augustȩ : impressa per Erhardu[m] Ratdolt, Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxviii. Mensis maii die vigesima [20 May 1488].
Description
[48] leaves : diagrams ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f8r: Finit arithmetica Boetii bene revisa ac fideli studio emendata Impressa per Erhardu[m] ratdolt viri solertissimi eximia i[n]dustria [et] mira imprime[n]di arte: qua nup[er] venetiis nu[n]c augustȩ excellet nominatissimus. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxviii. Mensis maii die vigesima.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G and 9:130G.
Signatures: a-f⁸: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut initials and typographic diagrams.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 14.8 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f8r: Finit arithmetica Boetii bene revisa ac fideli studio emendata Impressa per Erhardu[m] ratdolt viri solertissimi eximia i[n]dustria [et] mira imprime[n]di arte: qua nup[er] venetiis nu[n]c augustȩ excellet nominatissimus. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxviii. Mensis maii die vigesima.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G and 9:130G.
Signatures: a-f⁸: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut initials and typographic diagrams.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 14.8 cm.
Binding
Modern half brown goatskin, with cloth sides, over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: A few marginal notations in text. Extensive arithmetic notes in Italian on original endleaves and half-title page, dated 1510 and 1516.
Provenance
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Joseph Baer, Oct. 1923.
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