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.
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.
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