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Opusculum Augustini Senensis, quod vulgo Dacus maior dicit[ur] foeliciter incipit.

Accession number
PML 646.1
Creator
Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478.
Object title

Opusculum Augustini Senensis, quod vulgo Dacus maior dicit[ur] foeliciter incipit.

Published

[Deventer] : [Richardus Pafraet], [approximately 1481-1483]

Description

[34] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Explicit, leaf d9v: Augustini Daci Senensis Elega[n]tiolae foeliciter finiuntur.
Imprint from ISTC, dated from paper evidence (WILC). Dated about 1480 in GW and Goff, about 1480-1485 in HPT.
Printed in Parfraet's type 2B:103G.
Signatures: a-c⁸ d¹⁰: 34 leaves, leaves a1 and d10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with parchment sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Elegantiolae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Initials unrealized, red capital strokes and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary/16th-century English and Latin notations throughout, in 2 hands (same throughout PML 646).
Provenance
J. J. Mansel, signature, 19th century (front endleaf 1 recto, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department