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.
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.
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