Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Florentinus turonensis de destructione co[n]stantinopolitana sive de ultione troianorum contra grecos.

Accession number
PML 56347
Creator
Florentinus [Liquenaius] Turonensis.
Object title

Florentinus turonensis de destructione co[n]stantinopolitana sive de ultione troianorum contra grecos.

Published

[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer and Guillaume Bouchet], [approximately 1497]

Description

[12] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1967.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's types 8:96G and 11:76G.
GW dates as about 1498.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves. Signed to the sheet.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Edited by Bertrandus Baudon.
Printer's mark, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 13.8 cm.
Binding
19th-century dark red morocco over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: De destructione Constantinopolitana, sive De ultione Trojanorum contra Graecos
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary interlinear and marginal notations sporadically throughout, heavy at times, in 2 hands.
Provenance
Maggs Bros., cat. 533 (1930), no. 53, supposedly acquired from Émile Nourry (i.e. Pierre Saintyves), who had separated a Sammelband of 11 rare Poitiers incunabula (see letter from Clifford Maggs in ChL 1596T file); Gaston Ruddoff, of Santiago, Chile, inscription: "Ex libris G. Ruddoff" (front endleaf 1 recto); Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., included stock of Ruddoff books at death of Bernardo Mendel (who purchased the firm in 1952), 1967; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in 1967.
Classification
Century
Department