Accession number
PML 18697
Object title
Etymologicum Magnum Graecum [Greek]
Published
Venice : Zacharias Callierges for Nicolaus Blastus and Anna Notaras, [8 July 1499].
Description
[224] leaves ; 43 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Colophon, leaf ΔΔ5v with publisher's mark, printer's mark on leaf ΔΔ6r.
Printed in Callierges's type 1:120/121Gr.
Signatures: Α¹⁰ Β-Ω ΑΑ-ΓΓ⁸ ΔΔ⁶: 224 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Edited by Marcus Musurus. With additions by Johannes Gregoropulus.
Rubrics, initials, decorative borders, publisher's/printer's marks, and signatures in quire A printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42.3 x 28.8 cm.
Colophon, leaf ΔΔ5v with publisher's mark, printer's mark on leaf ΔΔ6r.
Printed in Callierges's type 1:120/121Gr.
Signatures: Α¹⁰ Β-Ω ΑΑ-ΓΓ⁸ ΔΔ⁶: 224 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Edited by Marcus Musurus. With additions by Johannes Gregoropulus.
Rubrics, initials, decorative borders, publisher's/printer's marks, and signatures in quire A printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 42.3 x 28.8 cm.
Binding
19th/20th century English full reddish-brown goatskin over heavy paper boards (43 x 30.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Carlo Bossi (1572-1649), stamp: "Bibliothecae Bossianae Alexandrinae" (leaf A1r), library bequeathed to the Barnabite convent of St. Alexander in Milan (founded 1588 and suppressed 1810); Pierpont Morgan, (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1909.
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