Accession number
PML 485
Creator
Fichet, Guillaume.
Object title
Rhetorica. Add: Robertus Gaguinus: Panegyricus in auctorem.
Published
[Paris : Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, July 1471]
Description
(4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Proofs of an earlier redaction of the text survive in Freiburg i.Br. Three copies are known with printed letters of dedication added: to Cardinal Bessarion in Venice, Marciana, to Charles de Bourbon in Paris BN, and to Sixtus IV in London BL. Five quires are affected by cancels made in the course of printing (Veyrin-Forrer(Sorbonne), pp. 215-19).
Checklist: "Cl Paris 6; JPM 485."
Checklist lists this item under Atelier de la Sorbonne as part of Gering, Crantz and Friburger as printers.
Checklist: "Cl Paris 6; JPM 485."
Checklist lists this item under Atelier de la Sorbonne as part of Gering, Crantz and Friburger as printers.
Binding
19th-century black calf (?), embossed.
Provenance
From the libraries of Ambroise Firmin-Didot and Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification
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