Opera bellissima delarte militar / del excellentissimo poeta miser Antonio Cornazano in terza rima.

Accession number: 
PML 25866
Author: 
Cornazzano, Antonio, 1429-1484.
Published: 
Venexia [sic] : p[er] maistro Cristophoro [de Pensis] da ma[n]dello aposta del venetabile [sic] homo miser pre Piero Benalio, a di otto novembrio ... MCCCCLXXXXIII [i.e. 1494]
Description: 
lx, [4] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1928.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf k4v): Finisse el libro delarte militar co[m]posto per lo excelle[n]tissimo homo miser Antonio Cornazan stampato in Venexia p[er] Maistro Cristophoro da ma[n]dello aposta del Venetabile [sic] Homo Miser Pre Piero Benalio. A di otto novembrio dela[n]no de la salute del nostro signor miser Jesu Christo nel. MCCCCLXXXXIII.
Printed in Bernardinus Benalius's types 5:107R, 6:160G, and 11:110R.
Signatures: a⁸ b-i⁶ k⁴; A⁴: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Privilege (leaf a1v) dated "iii. zener. M.CCCC.LXXXXIII.", i.e. 3 January 1494 according to the Italian reckoning.
Large woodcut illustration on t.p. from a block first used in Valturius, De re militari, Verona, B. de Boninis, 1483.
Capital spaces, with guide-letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21.5 cm.

Binding: 
17th/18th-century Italian vellum over paper boards (33 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes were erased but price code: [gamma eta] still partially visible (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 980 to [Francis?] Edwards for £40; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, July 1928.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books