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Incipit prohemium in tractatum de moribus condictionibus et nequicia Turcorum.

Accession number
PML 22213.3
Creator
Georgius, de Hungaria, ca. 1422-1502.
Object title

Incipit prohemium in tractatum de moribus condictionibus et nequicia Turcorum.

Published

[Rome] : [Georg Herolt], [approximately 1481]

Description

[36] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r: Incipit prohemium in tractatum de moribus condictionibus et nequicia Turcorum.
Imprint from GW.
Although Teutonicus is generally identified with Herolt, IGI VI follows BMC in preferring Lauer. ISTC attributed to [Georgius Teutonicus (Herolt or Lauer) and Sixtus Riessinger].
Printed in Herolt's type 2*81G.
Collation: [1-4⁸ 5⁴]: 36 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Includes two speeches in Turkish with a Latin translation.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
15th-century half leather ("an Italian schoolbook style binding") over beech boards (22 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports; repaired. A bifolium of a parchment manuscript sacramentary used as front and rear endleaves. Plain endbands. 1 clasp. Contemporary manuscript title inscriptions on exterior and interior of top board.
Variant title
De ritu et moribus Turcorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout Oppian, probably by Flaminio.
Provenance
Gian Antonio Flaminio (1464-1536), signatures: "Liber Antonio Flaminii" (front and rear manuscript endleaves and leaf a1r of Oppian); Giovanni Maria de Ragazzinio, inscription: "Ex libris Joannis Mariȩ de Ragazzinii," 16th century (leaf a1r of Oppian); unidentified octagonal black ink stamp with adorsed monogram: PRM(?) (leaves a1r and h8r of Oppian and leaf [1]/1r of Georgius de Hungaria); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1923.
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