Accession number
PML 21536
Creator
Nonius Marcellus, active 4th century.
Object title
De proprietate latini sermonis.
Published
[Venice] : [printer not identified], 1471.
Description
[328] pages (the last 3 pages blank) ; 35 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1921.
Notes
Author/title supplied from ISTC.
Printing city assigned by type (see BMC)
Colophon (leaf [16]/9r): FINITO LIBRO LAVS ET GLORIA CHRISTO M.CCCC.LXXI.
Type 115R.
Signatures: [1¹²; 2-9¹⁰ 10¹²; 11-16¹⁰]: 164 leaves, leaves [16]/9v-10r/v blank.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
Text begins: [S]enium est tedium et odium, dictum a senectute q[uia] senes omnibus odio sint & tedio. Index (quire 1) precedes text (in BM copy, it follows).
Includes index.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.6 x 22.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [16]/10 (blank).
Printing city assigned by type (see BMC)
Colophon (leaf [16]/9r): FINITO LIBRO LAVS ET GLORIA CHRISTO M.CCCC.LXXI.
Type 115R.
Signatures: [1¹²; 2-9¹⁰ 10¹²; 11-16¹⁰]: 164 leaves, leaves [16]/9v-10r/v blank.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
Text begins: [S]enium est tedium et odium, dictum a senectute q[uia] senes omnibus odio sint & tedio. Index (quire 1) precedes text (in BM copy, it follows).
Includes index.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.6 x 22.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [16]/10 (blank).
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled, brown, hard-grained morocco over paper boards (33.5 x 23 cm.), sewn on 5(?) supports by Charles Smith. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Contemporary manuscript guide letters and roman numeral foliation. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate and monogram booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1398; William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 2242 to Bull for £1.2; Giuseppe Martini, unknown catalogue, no. 212; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Martini, 1921.
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