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Pharsaliae.

Accession number
PML 42631
Creator
Lucan, 39-65.
Object title

Pharsaliae.

Published

[Venice] : [Printer of Basilius, 'De vita solitaria'], [about 1471]

Description

[106] leaves ; 34 x 20 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1951.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): .M. ANNEI LUCANI CORDUBENSIS PHARSALIAE LIBER PRIMUS.
Printed in type 1:116R.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-13⁸ 14⁶]: 106 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 19.7 cm.
Binding
Contemporary Italian blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (34 x 20 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Manuscript waste as pastedowns; plain endbands. 4 bosses on each board, 1 wanting; 2 clasps, both wanting, with Agnus dei embossed on catchplates.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal and interlinear notations throughout in a very small Italian hand, with elaborately cuffed manicules.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, July 1951.
Classification
Century
Department