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[Erotemata (Greek and Latin).

Accession number
PML 41418
Creator
Chrysoloras, Manuel, approximately 1350-1415.
Object title

[Erotemata (Greek and Latin).

Published

[Venice] : [Adam de Ambergau], [approximately 1471]

Description

[30] leaves ; 19 cm (4to and 8vo)

Credit line
Purchased in 1950.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in de Ambergau's type 1:113R and 3:113Gr.
Signatures: [1-3¹⁰]: 30 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto and Royal octavo.
Text in the redaction of Guarinus Veronensis.
A selection with Latin commentary.
PML and BAV copies are 8⁰, other copies apparently 4⁰.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.3 x 13.2 cm.
Binding
19th-century half vellum, with paste paper sides, over paper boards (19 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: 16th-century inscription of author's name (abraded) and a few T-shaped paragraph marks (leaf [1]/1r). No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Martin Breslauer, Feb. 1950.
Classification
Century
Department