Accession number
PML 20594
Creator
Jacobus, de Reno.
Object title
Dyalogus de sene et iuvene de amore disputantibus.
Published
Impressus Antwerpie : p[er] me Gerardu[m] leonis, Anno incarnationis Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimoprimo: quinta die mensis Julii [5 July 1491].
Description
[38] leaves : woodcuts ; 14 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from second colophon, leaf e6v: Finit Tractatus artis musice Impressus Antwerpie p[er] me Gerardu[m] leonis Anno incarnationis Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimoprimo: quinta die mensis Julii.
First colophon, leaf c6r: Finit hic dyalogus senis [et] iuvenis de amore disputa[n]tiu[m]. Antwerpie impressus p[er] me Gerardu[m] leeu. a[n]no d[omi]ni M.cccc.xci. q[ui]nta die mensis julii.
Printed in types 8:99G and 9:82G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸: 38 leaves, leaf e7 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Woodcut of an old and young man in conversation (leaf a1r) and Leeu's printer's mark (leaves c6v and e8v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.7 x 9 cm.
Imprint from second colophon, leaf e6v: Finit Tractatus artis musice Impressus Antwerpie p[er] me Gerardu[m] leonis Anno incarnationis Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimoprimo: quinta die mensis Julii.
First colophon, leaf c6r: Finit hic dyalogus senis [et] iuvenis de amore disputa[n]tiu[m]. Antwerpie impressus p[er] me Gerardu[m] leeu. a[n]no d[omi]ni M.cccc.xci. q[ui]nta die mensis julii.
Printed in types 8:99G and 9:82G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸: 38 leaves, leaf e7 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Woodcut of an old and young man in conversation (leaf a1r) and Leeu's printer's mark (leaves c6v and e8v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.7 x 9 cm.
Binding
18th-century (English?) gilt-tooled sprinkled calf over paper boards (14.5 x 9.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Dialogus senis et iuvenis de amore disputantium
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: A few 16th-century marginal notations throughout text.
Provenance
Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, part II, Sotheby's, 5 June 1912, lot 2352, to J. & J. Leighton for £21.10.0; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 145 purchased by Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown, 28 Dec. 1917) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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