Accession number:
PML 42797
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.
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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