Accession number
PML 18886
Creator
Calcondila, Demetrio, 1423-1511.
Object title
Dēmētriou Chalkondylou Erōtēmata synoptika tōn oktō tou logou merōn : meta tinōn chrēsimōn kanonōn.
Published
[Milan] : [Ulrich Scinzenzeler], [approximately 1493]
Description
[60, 68, 20] leaves ; 29 cm (fol. and 4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from text incipit (leaf [alpha]2r).
Imprint from GW.
Printed in Scinzenzeler's type 1:110Gk.
Signatures: [alpha]-[eta]⁸ [theta]⁴; ²[alpha]-[eta]⁸ ²[theta]-[iota]⁶; ³[alpha]-[beta]⁶ [gamma]⁸: 148 leaves, leaf [theta]4 blank. Leaf ³[gamma]4 signed '[gamma]iii'.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto.
Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.
On leaf ¹[eta]7r, the final 16 lines consist of bearer type mistakenly inked during printing.
In the Houghton Library copy, as in the British Library copies, the first 6 quires are largely printed in folio format on sheets of "chancery"--Size paper; the remainder are printed in quarto format on sheets of "royal"-size paper.
Errata: leaves [alpha]1r-v, ²[iota]5v-6v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [alpha]1.
Imprint from GW.
Printed in Scinzenzeler's type 1:110Gk.
Signatures: [alpha]-[eta]⁸ [theta]⁴; ²[alpha]-[eta]⁸ ²[theta]-[iota]⁶; ³[alpha]-[beta]⁶ [gamma]⁸: 148 leaves, leaf [theta]4 blank. Leaf ³[gamma]4 signed '[gamma]iii'.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto.
Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.
On leaf ¹[eta]7r, the final 16 lines consist of bearer type mistakenly inked during printing.
In the Houghton Library copy, as in the British Library copies, the first 6 quires are largely printed in folio format on sheets of "chancery"--Size paper; the remainder are printed in quarto format on sheets of "royal"-size paper.
Errata: leaves [alpha]1r-v, ²[iota]5v-6v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [alpha]1.
Binding
18th-century (English?) sprinkled calf over paper boards with (later?) gilt Marlborough armorial (29.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Erōtēmata synoptika tōn oktō tou logou merōn
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal annotations in Greek in Gregorius, Dialektōn only. Manuscript fore-edge title and Latin alphabetic quire signatures.
Provenance
Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: B: 5. 25: (front fly leaf recto), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough, gilt armorial on binding; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part I, 1 Dec. 1881, lot 2671; Leo Olschki, book label (rear pastedown, upside down), to Ludwig Rosenthal, Munich (Hoskier note, front fly leaf recto); H.C. Hoskier, purchased from Rosenthal Dec. 1902, bibliographic notes (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April-May 1909.
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