Accession number
PML 27169
Object title
Fiore di virtù.
Published
[Rome] : [Johannes Bulle], [approximately 1478]
Description
[38] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bulle's type 1:83G.
Collation: [1-4⁸ 5⁶]: 38 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 12.5 cm.
Printed in Bulle's type 1:83G.
Collation: [1-4⁸ 5⁶]: 38 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 12.5 cm.
Binding
18th-century full calf over paper boards (19 x 13 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns, with plain endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication, contemporary Italian alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. 17th/18th-century foliation (111-147), indicating that this work used to be part of a Sammelband.
Provenance
George John Warren, Lord Vernon (1803-1866), monogram bookplate (front pastedown), part of his library sold to Lord Holford (sales, Sotheby's, 10 June 1918, 19 Oct. 1921 (lots 301-853) and 16 July 1928 (lots 1-165)); unidentified round paper label, inscribed: [?]25 (front cover); E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. 21 (1930), no. 106; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, Feb. 1930.
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