Accession number
PML 475
Creator
Lucretius Carus, Titus.
Object title
T. Lucreti Cari poetae philosophici antiquissimi de rerum natura liber primus incipit foeliciter.
Published
In Verona : Paulus hunc impressit fridenperger in uerona ..., Ab incarnatione christi Mcccclxxxvi Die uigesimo octauo septembris calen. octobris [28 Sept. 1486; 1 Oct. 1486]
Description
[96] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf a2.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m7r.
Printed in Fridenperger's type 1:112R.
Signatures: a-m⁸: 96 leaves, leaves a1 and m8 blank/unsigned.
Paper format: Chancery folio
The two paragraphs of text following the colophon repeat parts of verses and commentary given earlier in the text. Presumably they are the notes of a manuscript owner, which the printer mistook for text.--Cf. BM 15th cent. VII, p. 953.
There are two settings of c4 and d7: line 24 of c4 recto may begin with a separate Q or a single Qu; line 11 of d7 recto may read "Capitula praecedentis libri secundi" or "Capitula h[uius] secundi libri."
1 column, 41 lines. Capital spaces with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.5 cm., trimmed.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m7r.
Printed in Fridenperger's type 1:112R.
Signatures: a-m⁸: 96 leaves, leaves a1 and m8 blank/unsigned.
Paper format: Chancery folio
The two paragraphs of text following the colophon repeat parts of verses and commentary given earlier in the text. Presumably they are the notes of a manuscript owner, which the printer mistook for text.--Cf. BM 15th cent. VII, p. 953.
There are two settings of c4 and d7: line 24 of c4 recto may begin with a separate Q or a single Qu; line 11 of d7 recto may read "Capitula praecedentis libri secundi" or "Capitula h[uius] secundi libri."
1 column, 41 lines. Capital spaces with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.5 cm., trimmed.
Binding
19th century English gilt-tooled brown goatskin over paper boards (30.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by F. Bedford. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De rerum natura liber primus incipit foeliciter
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian rubrication, blue lombard with red filigree penwork, alternating red and blue paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. 15th-century title inscription: "Lucreti de rer[um] Na[tura]" (leaf a1r).
Provenance
Sigismund Pender (d. 1560), of Regensberg, inscription: "Sigismundi Pender, Veneti, Oriundi Germani, Sacerdotis indigni," 16th century (leaf a1r); unidentified oval bookplate, removed (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 212, 15/5/96 and price code: we/we/- +com (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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