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Comincia la elegante et bella historia deli nobilissimi amanti Paris et Viena.

Accession number
PML 28073.1
Creator
Pierre, de la Cépède, active 15th century.
Object title

Comincia la elegante et bella historia deli nobilissimi amanti Paris et Viena.

Published

Impress a Venetia : [Antonius de Strata, de Cremona], anno .Mcccclxxxvi. adi .iiii. de Setembrio [4 September 1486].

Description

[60] leaves ; 21 cm (8vo and 4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1931.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
City and date from colophon, leaf h3r: Finisse la historia deli nobili amanti Paris et Viena impressa a Venetia anno .Mcccclxxxvi. adi .iiii. de Setembrio.
Printed in de Strata's type 3:84R.
Signatures: a-g⁸ h⁴: 60 leaves, leaves a1 and h4 blank.
Paper format: Royal half-sheet octavo and Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 13 cm.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled full green goatskin over paper boards (21 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duru, 1852. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Storia dei nobilissimi amanti Paris e Viena
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript registrum beneath colophon listing quires, "omnes sunt quaterni preter h", abraded (partially visible under UV).
Provenance
Petrus Bogniatus, abraded inscription (partially visible under UV), 15th/16th century (leaf h3r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1931.
Classification
Century
Department