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Val. Catulli Veronensis poetae doctissimi liber ad Cornelium Gallum incipit.

Accession number
PML 467
Creator
Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
Object title

Val. Catulli Veronensis poetae doctissimi liber ad Cornelium Gallum incipit.

Published

Impressum Parmae : per me Stephanu[m] Corallu[m], Anno Christi .M.cccclxxiii. secu[n]do cal[ends] septembris [31 August 1473]

Description

[96] leaves ; 30 cm. (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [12]/8r.
The date in the colophon reads "secūdo cal. Septembris", interpreted by BMC as 2 Sept.
Printed in Corallus's type 1:112R.
Collation: [1-12⁸]: 96 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus.
1 column of 34 lines. Initial spaces, with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 20.2 cm.
Binding
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by C.M. Ullman, 1964. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Carmina
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript title on bottom edge.
Provenance
Unidentified cypher containing the letters a, e, r, d' and the name Azonus or Azlonus, 15th century (leaf [12]/8v); Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: B4: 66 (fly leaf, detached, now in dept. file), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough, shelf mark: 60. d. 6 (fly leaf, detached, now in dept. file); Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part V, 10 March 1883, lot 11683 for £13.5.0; Sir Edward Sullivan (1852-1928), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 19 May 1890, lot 5993; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: wm/-/- +___ (fly leaf, detached, now in dept. file); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department