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[Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis].

Accession number
PML 16167
Creator
Merula, Giorgio, -1494.
Object title

[Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis].

Published

Venice : Gabriele di Pietro, [between 15 March and 6 May] 1478.

Description

[150] leaves ; 32 x 23 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf s6r): Impressa Venetiis per Gabrielem Petri Duce inclyto Andrea Vendramino. .M.CCCC.LXXVIII.
Printed in type 3:90R.
Collation: A⁴; a¹⁰ b-i⁸ K⁸ l-s⁸: 150 leaves, leaves A1, [a1], and s8 blank; a2 signed a.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.2 x 21.7 cm, untrimmed, all deckel edges.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: s8 (blank) and with quire A bound last.
Binding
19th-century vellum over paper boards (32 x 23 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Checklist title: Enarrationes Saturarum Juvenalis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Henry Walter Cholmley (1841-1901); his sale, Sotheby's, 26 Nov. 1902, to Quaritch; Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by F.S. Ferguson, 1 Dec. 1902 (rear fly leaf recto); H.C. Hoskier, signature and bibliographic notes, Jan. 1903 (front fly leaf recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 29 June 1908, lot 47; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1909.
Classification
Century
Department