Epitome tōn oktō tōn logou merōn kai allōn tinōn anangkaiōn syntetheisa / para Kōnstantinou tou Laskareōs tou Byzantiou = Compendium octo orationis partium et aliorum quorundam necessariorum / editum a Constantino Lascari Byzantio. De diuisione litterarum. [97a] Finis. Hoc diuinum opus impressum est/ Mediolani iii kalendas octobres. M.cccclxxx. & interpretatum/ per uenerabilē uirū utriusq[ue] lin-/guae doctissimu ac optimum Io-/hannem monachum Placentinum.

Accession number: 
PML 20950
Author: 
Lascaris, Constantine, 1434-1501?
Published: 
Mediolani : [Bonus Accursius], iii kalendas octobres. M.ccccLxxx [29 September 1480].
Description: 
[98] leaves ; 27 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes: 

Title from caption (leaf a[2]r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf m9r): Hoc divinum opus impressum est Mediolani iii kalendas octobres. M.ccccLxxx. & interpretatum per venerabile[m] viru[m] utriusq[ue] linguae doctissimu[m] ac optimum Iohannem monachum Placentinum.
Printed in Accursius's types 1:119R and 3:125Gk.
Signatures: a-h I k-l⁸ m¹⁰: 98 leaves, leaf m10 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto.
Printed in two columns, Greek on the left and the Latin translation on the right, 31 lines per page. Space left for capital on 2a. Capital added in ink.
Letter from Bonus Accursius Pisanus to Julius Pomonius (leaf a[1]v).
Tract includes the following other tracts by Lascaris: [78b] De passionibvs di-/ctionvm ex/ garmmatici try-/phonis. [82b] De anomalis ver-/bis per ordi-/nem.
Translated into Latin by Joannes Crastonus.
Variants noted in CIBN.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 19.6 cm., trimmed.

Binding: 
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (27.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports for the Earl of Pembroke. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary Greek manuscript text, unidentified (leaf m10). Pencil notation: "LASC: GR:&L: MED: 1480" (leaf a[1]v).

Provenance: 
Unidentified inscription: "Della [abraded]" (leaf a[1]/r); Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733), shelf mark or price code: Kr.1. (front endleaf 1v); Pembroke sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, lot 123 to Bernard Quaritch (with collation note on rear fly leaf by Pruitt dated 1 July 1914); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1920.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books