[De verborum significatione].

Accession number:

PML 24555

Author:

Festus, Sextus Pompeius, active 2nd century, author.

Published:

Mediolani : [Pamfilo Castaldi with Antonius and Fortuna Zarotus], Tertio Nonas Augustas. Millessimo quadringentessimo: septuagessimo primo [3 August 1471].

Description:

[80] leaves ; 39 x 21 cm. (quarto)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1927.

Notes:

Title from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Place and date of printing from colophon (leaf [10]/7v): Finis. Laudetur Christus per quinque foramina Iesus. Festi Pompey liber expletus est. Mediolani Tertio Nonas Augustas. Millessimo : Quadringentessimo : Septuagessimo Primo. Ad honorem & laudem Illustrissimi ac Inuictissimi [in some copies "Inuictssimi"] Galeaz[ii] Mariae Mediolani Ducis Quinti. Ac Ducatus Sui Anno Quinto.
Printed in Antonius Zarotus's type 1:115R.
"GW assigns to Castaldi with the Zaroti; Goff assigned to Castaldi alone and Proctor to Antonius Zarotus. See A. Ganda in Libri, tipografi, biblioteche : ricerche storiche dedicate a Luigi Balsamo (1997), 55-66."--ISTC.
Collation: [1-10⁸]: 80 leaves, leaf [10]/8 blank. Leaf [3]/1 is a cancel.
Paper format: Royal quarto in half-sheets.
Spaces left blank for initials.

Binding:

17th/18th-century Italian parchment over paper boards (29 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Variant Title:

Explicit: Festi Pompey Liber expletus est

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated Venetian white vine initial (leaf [1]/1r), with gilt initials on red/blue/green ground, and floral border with armorial (leaf [1]/1r) -- the initials and armorial are likely two separate programs. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations throughout work. Contemporary manuscript quire numbers at bottom center of first rectos and alpha-numeric signatures.

Provenance:

Unidentified Italian armorial: blue with a red bend and two goblets to either side (leaf [1]/1r); Wilhelm Richter (1835?-1919?, ex-info Huntington Library), Bibliotheca Richteriana bookplate (front pastedown), acquired Munich 1908 (pencil note on rear fly leaf verso), most of collection sold to Huntington Library via A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1924; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, May 1927.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books