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Comoedie vtilissime, omne[m] latini sermonis elegantia[m] co[n]tinentes, e quibus quisq[ue] optimus latinus euadere potest.

Accession number
PML 169
Creator
Grünpeck, Joseph, approximately 1473-approximately 1532.
Object title

Comoedie vtilissime, omne[m] latini sermonis elegantia[m] co[n]tinentes, e quibus quisq[ue] optimus latinus euadere potest.

Published

[Augsburg] : [Johann Froschauer], [after 26 November 1497]

Description

[16] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902. NNP
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G and 4:130G.
Signatures: a-b⁶ c⁴: 16 leaves, leaf c4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 18.7 x 13.8 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century limp parchment (19 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Comoediae utilissimae omnem Latini sermonis elegantiam continentes
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not realized, where required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department