[Epistolae et Evangelia].

Accession number:

PML 75836

Published:

[Venice, Italy] : M.B.F. and B.D.P., 20 July 1474.

Description:

[156] leaves ; 30 x 22 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1979.

Notes:

Collation: [1¹⁰; 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4⁶ 5-6⁸ 7⁶ 8-10⁸ 11⁶ 12-18⁸ 19⁶ 20⁸]: 156 leaves.
Colophon and some incipits printed in red.
Colophon, in red (leaf [20]/8r): EXPLICIu[n]T. EVANGELII ET: EPISTOLE: AD. LAUDEM: DEI. ET: BEATE: M: VIRGINIS: ET. OMNIUM. SANCTORUM. AMEn DEO. GRATIAS M.CCCC.LXXIIII DIE: XX: JULII. .M.B.F. .B.D.P.
Only 3 copies known.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 20.8 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/1.
PML copy with tabula (quire [1]) bound last. Manuscript catchword on final verso of tabula indicates that it was originally, correctly bound first.
Printed in type 113R. Similar to type 114R of Gabriele di Pietro.
Title from ISTC.

Binding:

20th-century green embossed paper-covered boards (30 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Alternating red and blue lombards, yellow capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary catchwords on final versos, 2 sets of alpha-numeric quire signatures, and foliation.

Provenance:

Conte Gaetano Melzi (1783-1851), binding and manuscript note: "manca la prima carta" (front pastedown), much of Melzi's library descended to Marchese Camillo Meli-Lupi di Soragna Tarasconi in the 1930s; unidentified (Soragna Tarasconi?) shelf mark(?): XVIII E (front pastedown); Martin Breslauer, Inc.; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in Feb. 1979.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Case bindings (Binding)

Century:

20th century

Department:

Printed Books