Accession number
PML 16831
Creator
Nonius Marcellus, active 4th century
Object title
De proprietate sermonum.
Published
Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 1476.
Description
[194] leaves ; 29.5 x 20.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf c2r): NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBURTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIUM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONUM.
Colophon (leaf z12r): NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBURTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIUM DE PROPRIATATE SERMONUM IMPRESSA VENETIIS INDUSTRIA ATQUE IMPENDIO NICOLAI JENSON GALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI.
Printed in type 1*:111R, 5:93G for signatures.
Collation: a-c¹⁰ d-y⁸ z¹²: 194 leaves, leaves a1 and c1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: c1 (blank).
Colophon (leaf z12r): NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBURTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIUM DE PROPRIATATE SERMONUM IMPRESSA VENETIIS INDUSTRIA ATQUE IMPENDIO NICOLAI JENSON GALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI.
Printed in type 1*:111R, 5:93G for signatures.
Collation: a-c¹⁰ d-y⁸ z¹²: 194 leaves, leaves a1 and c1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: c1 (blank).
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De proprietate latini sermonis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), inscription: "Th. sc." and purchase price: £6.15.[?] (third fly leaf recto); his sale, Evans, part II, 28 May 1824, lot 549 purchased by Thorpe for £6.15.0; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1910.
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