Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii viri consularis et illustris in Somnium Scipionis expositionis quam elegantissime. Liber primus.

Accession number:

PML 31717

Author:

Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius.

Published:

Impressi Brixie : per Boninum de Boninis de Ragusia, M. CCCC. LXXXV. die .xv. Maii [15 May 1485].

Description:

[176] leaves : diagrams, map (woodcuts) ; 313 mm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1935.

Notes:

Title from caption in capitals at incipit on leaf a5 recto.
Imprints from colophon on leaf A8 recto, which reads in full: Macrobii [in capitals] Aurelii Theodosii uiri co[n]sularis & illustris saturnalior[um] libri impressi Brixie per Boninum de Boninis de Ragusia .M. CCCC. LXXXV. die .xv. Maii.
Printed in Bonini's types 3:112R and 14:111Gk.
Signatures: a⁸ b-c⁶ d⁸ e-f⁶ F⁶ g-q⁶ r⁸ s-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A⁸: 176 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut map of the world on leaf F5 recto, and diagrams.
Printed running titles and marginal notabilia.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 19.5 cm.

Binding:

19th-century French gilt-tooled black straight-grained morocco over paper boards (30 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Bozerian. Pink silk pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

In Somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notation in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified inscriptions, abraded/illegible under UV (leaf a2r); French dealer's note: collationné complee (leaf a1r) and unidentified British dealer's description, for £42 (in dept. file); Roper-Curzon family, Barons Teynham, armorial bookplate, 19th century (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gabriel Wells, 1935.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books