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Questo libro sie chiamado Fior de Vertu.

Accession number
PML 49748
Object title

Questo libro sie chiamado Fior de Vertu.

Published

[Italy (Venice?)] : [Printer of the 'Fiore di virtù'], [approximately 1472]

Description

[74] leaves; 21 cm. (4to)

Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1959.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
BMC and GW assign to an anonymous press, located by BMC tentatively at Venice.
Printed in unassigned type 1:115R. Also printed Ovid, De arte amandi (ISTC io00138700).
Goff assigned to Adam de Ambergau.
GW dates to about 1471.
Collation: [1¹² 2-6¹⁰ 7¹²]: 74 leaves, leaf [7]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 column, 24 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 15.3 cm.
Binding
19th-century French straight-grained purple morocco over paper boards (21 x 15 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Bozerian. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Fior de vertu
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. A few pen trials sporadically throughout, 17th(?) century.
Provenance
Tammaro De Marinis (1878-1969); Martin Breslauer, cat. 91 (1958), no. 32; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the Fellows, Feb. 1959.
Classification
Century
Department