Accession number
PML 17587
Creator
Lascaris, Constantine, 1434-1501?
Object title
Epitomē tōn oktō tou logou merōn kai allōn tinōn anankaiōn syn tetheisa para Kōnstantinou Laskareōs tou Byzantiou.
Published
Mediolani Impressum : Per Magistrum Dionysium Parauisinum, .MCCCCLXXVI. Die xxx Ianuarii [30 January 1476]
Description
76 unnumbered leaves ; 24 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title from caption in capitals at incipit on leaf [2]/1r.
Imprint from colophon on leaf [8]/10v.
Printed in Paravisinus's types 1:Gk and 2:R.
Signatures: [1⁴ 2-7¹⁰ 8¹²]: 76 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [8]/11-12 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto
Edited by Demetrius Cretensis, with preface in Greek and Latin.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 23 x 16 cm.
Checklist lists this title under Paravisinus "for Demetrius Cretensis."
Imprint from colophon on leaf [8]/10v.
Printed in Paravisinus's types 1:Gk and 2:R.
Signatures: [1⁴ 2-7¹⁰ 8¹²]: 76 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [8]/11-12 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto
Edited by Demetrius Cretensis, with preface in Greek and Latin.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 23 x 16 cm.
Checklist lists this title under Paravisinus "for Demetrius Cretensis."
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled red hard-grained morocco over paper boards (24 x 17 cm.), sewn on 5 supports (by Charles Lewis?). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Illuminated initials with foliate decoration, Florence. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in Greek, in 2 hands.
Provenance
Medici family, early armorial: 7 red balls (at initial and bottom margin of leaf [1]/4r, bottom margin overpainted); Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate and monogram booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (glued to front fly leaf); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1106; Alb[ert] Müller, collation statement, 18 Dec. 1884 (rear pastedown); Brayton Ives (1840-1914); Catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives (1891), no. 564, to Hoe for $340; Robert Hoe (1839-1909), book label and gilt initials (front pastedown); his sale, Anderson Auction Company, part I, 24 April 1911, lot 2013; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased at Hoe sale via Quaritch, 1911.
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