Accession number
PML 433
Creator
Lucian, of Samosata.
Object title
Loukianou Samosateō Dialogoi. Peri tou enypōiou. Hētoi bios Loukianou.
Published
En Phlorentia : [Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus], 1496.
Description
[262] leaves ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1910.
Notes
Title from caption (leaf "[Alpha]1"r).
Colophon (leaf [eta][eta]6r): En Phlorentia. et chiliozō tetrakosiozō enenēkozō ektō.
Printed in Laurentius de Alopa's type 5:111Gk.
Signatures: [Alpha-Beta]⁸; [alpha]-[theta] [Iota] [kappa-omicron]⁸ [alpha][alpha]-[eta][eta]⁸: 262 leaves (first and last leaves blank), [Alpha]2 signed [Alpha]1, etc.
Paper format: Median folio.
Probably edited by Janus Lascaris.
Some copies have a title-page printed for a reissue of 1517 (BMC).
Spaces left for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.8 x 22.8 cm.
Colophon (leaf [eta][eta]6r): En Phlorentia. et chiliozō tetrakosiozō enenēkozō ektō.
Printed in Laurentius de Alopa's type 5:111Gk.
Signatures: [Alpha-Beta]⁸; [alpha]-[theta] [Iota] [kappa-omicron]⁸ [alpha][alpha]-[eta][eta]⁸: 262 leaves (first and last leaves blank), [Alpha]2 signed [Alpha]1, etc.
Paper format: Median folio.
Probably edited by Janus Lascaris.
Some copies have a title-page printed for a reissue of 1517 (BMC).
Spaces left for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.8 x 22.8 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century gilt- and blind-tooled red straight-grained morocco over paper boards (34 x 24.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Alexis Pierre Bradel. Blue-green silk pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt and gauffered edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in Greek on leaf [Alpha]8 only. 15th/16th-century foliation in bottom right corner.
Provenance
Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel missing (front pastedown); his sale, Paris, part III, 9 June 1881, lot 451; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased by 1910.
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