Accession number:
PML 78071
Published:
Impresso in Firenze : [Antonio Miscomini], a di .xxi. di maggio .MCCCC.LXXXV [21 May 1485].
Description:
[4], CLXVIII, [2] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Acquired in 1984.
Notes:
Title from caption (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [22]/9r).
Printed in Miscomini's type 3:112R.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-21⁸ 22¹⁰]: 174 leaves, leaf [22]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Printed Roman numeral foliation at foot of page.
Preface by Marsilius Ficinus and letter to Pope Paul II by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 19.4 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter sheep over wooden boards (30.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title:
Sermones
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, northern Italian blue initials with red geometric penwork, alternating red and blue minor initials throughout. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript quire numeration, only 8 still visible.
Provenance:
Unidentified armorial bookplate: crowned sheild with imperial eagle and a harrow, held up by a putti surrounded by implements of battle (front pastedown); Laurence Witten, cat. 19, no. 60; Pierpont Morgan Library, acquired through exchange of duplicates PML 322 and 369 with Witten, 1984.
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