Accession number
PML 42797
Creator
Contarini, Ambrogio, active 15th century.
Object title
Questo el viazo de misier Ambrosio Contarin ambasador de la illustrissima signoria de Venesia al signor Vxuncassam re de Persia.
Published
Impressum Venetiis : per Ha[n]nibalem Fosium, .Mcccclxxxvii. die .xvi. Ianuari [16 January 1487].
Description
[24] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f4v: Impressum Venetiis per Ha[n]nibalem Fosium parmensem anno incarnationis domini .Mcccclxxxvii. die .xvi. Ianuarii.
Printed in Foxius's type 5:81R.
Signatures: a-f⁴: 24 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 14.2 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f4v: Impressum Venetiis per Ha[n]nibalem Fosium parmensem anno incarnationis domini .Mcccclxxxvii. die .xvi. Ianuarii.
Printed in Foxius's type 5:81R.
Signatures: a-f⁴: 24 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 14.2 cm.
Binding
19th-century green, hard-grained morocco, gilt-tooled, over paper boards (20 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports; Kraus catalogue description identifies binder as Lewis, but binding is not signed. Plain brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Viaggio ad Usun Hassan re di Persia.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript foliation begins with "78" on leaf a2r, indicating that this copy was previously part of a Sammelband.
Provenance
Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace Libraries sale, Sotheby's, 1 May 1884, lot 599 (green morocco by C. Lewis); James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, Bibliotheca Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, part 1, 13 June 1887, lot 727 (green morocco, binder identified as Mackenzie; identified as Hanrott copy, sold Evans, 16 July 1833, lot 1484 (bound in green morocco)) [notes in PML copy claim as both Hamilton and Crawford copy]; T. de Marinis, 16 June 1919; Giuseppe Martini, collation note (front endleaf 1 verso); unidentified Kraus catalogue, no. 69; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, Oct. 1951.
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