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Lvcidario, cioe dichiaratione di molte belle & singulari quistioni.

Accession number
PML 75888
Object title

Lvcidario, cioe dichiaratione di molte belle & singulari quistioni.

Published

Impresso in Firenze : [Lorenzo Morgiani], ad petitione di Ser Piero Pacini da Pescia, [approximately 1495]

Description

[42] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1979.
Notes
Titel from caption, leaf 1r.
Imprint from ISTC and colophon, leaf f2v: Finito e illibro chiamato Lucidario Cioe, dichiaratore di molte belle & fottili domande & quistioni. Impresso in Firenze ad petitione di Ser Piero Pacini da Pescia. [Pacini's devices, leaf f4v].
Printed in Morgiani's type 4:86R. GW manuscript identifies as 1:111R.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ f⁴: 42 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
The text is derived from the Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis (Verfasserlexikon 2, Bd 5 col 939ff).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 12.8 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: d1.8.
Binding
17th/18th-century(?) Italian stiff laced parchment over paper boards (20 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Lucidario ovvero Dialogo del maestro e del discepolo
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decroation: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
P.A.P., unidentified initials, 19th century (front pastedown); George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), signature, 1827 (front board and a1r); Solomon Pottesman (1904-1978); his sale, Sotheby's London, 15 Oct. 1979, lot 206, to Quaritch (collation statement on rear pastedown) for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, puchased Oct. 1979.
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