Accession number
PML 311
Creator
Martial.
Object title
Epigrammatum.
Published
Venice : Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1475.
Description
[170] leaves ; 29 x 20 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
CIBN describes two variants.
Collation: a-r¹⁰: 170 leaves, leaf r10 blank.
Colophon (leaf r9v): Impressum Venetiis Impensis Johannis de Colonia: sociiq[ue] eius Joannis manthen de Gherretze[m]. .M.cccc.lxxv.
Edited by Georgius Merula.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 18.9 cm
PML copy with bottom edge of leaf a1r replaced.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammatum opus In Amphitheatrum Caesaris.
Collation: a-r¹⁰: 170 leaves, leaf r10 blank.
Colophon (leaf r9v): Impressum Venetiis Impensis Johannis de Colonia: sociiq[ue] eius Joannis manthen de Gherretze[m]. .M.cccc.lxxv.
Edited by Georgius Merula.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 18.9 cm
PML copy with bottom edge of leaf a1r replaced.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammatum opus In Amphitheatrum Caesaris.
Binding
19th-century red morocco over paper boards (29 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; red egdes.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Northern Italy (Venice?), rubricated, alternating red/blue initials with blue/red penwork (1 on d5v is very similar to PML 21194-95). Annotations: Minor contemporary reader's marks in margins.
Provenance
Unidentified shelf mark: C: L: 21 (leaf a2r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code: l/-/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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