De priscorum proprietate verborum.

Accession number:

PML 23207

Author:

Maius, Junianus.

Published:

[Naples] : Impressere Mathias Moravus impressor soleritssimus: & venerabilis monachus Blasius theologus vir integerrimus, M.cccc.Lxxv [1475].

Description:

[368] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1925.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf mm9v: Editum opus sub foelicissimo Ferdinando rege inclitae Neapolis. Impressere Mathias Morauus impressor soleritssimus: & uenerabilis monachus Blasius theologus uir integerrimus. Opus edidit Iunianus Maius parthenopeus. Cu[m] annus saecularis celebraretur: orbis fere terrarum hominum insolentia praeter italiam bello turbulentissimus esset .M.cccc.Lxxv.
Printed in Moravus's type 2:116R.
Signatures: a-d¹⁰ e-f⁸ g-i¹⁰ K¹⁰ l-m¹² n-q¹⁰ R¹² s-z¹⁰ &¹⁰; [Rum]¹²; aa-dd¹⁰ ee8 ff⁶ gg-hh¹⁰ II-LL¹⁰ mm¹⁰: 368 leaves, leaf mm10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Prefatory letter to Ferdinand I de Aragona, King of Naples (leaf a1v) and letter to Henricus Languardus, Archbishop of Acerenza and Matera (leaf mm9r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 28 cm.

Binding:

18th/19th-century Italian diced half calf, with glazed paper sides, over paper boards (41.5 x 29 cm), sewn on 4 supports, with Strozzi armorial stamp on spine. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plani vellum front endleaf; stuck-on endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary illuminated white vine intial (leaf a2r), remainder of rubrication unrealized. 18th/19th-century illuminated Strozzi armorial (leaf a2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Alfonso Strozzi (1467-1534), inscription: "Alphonsi strozae & amicorum" (front endleaf 2 verso), Strozzi family armorial: gold, band of red with 3 silver crescent moons, probably modern addition (leaf a2r) and crowned armorial stamp of three crescent moons with the surrounding motto: Expecto, 18th/19th century (leaf a1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E. Ph. Goldschmidt, Dec. 1925.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books