Cornucopiae, siue linguae Latinae commentarii, : ubi quam plurima loca, quae in aliis ante impressis, incorrecta leguntur emendata sunt. Multa praeterea, quae in iis, etiam, quos ex archetypo excriptos habuimus, mendosa erant, emaculauimus. Graecum, quod ita inuersum, ac deprauatum erat, ut ne legi quidem posset, in suum locum & candorem restitutum est. Index copiosissimus, & nouo ordine, quo facillime quodcunq[ue] q[uae]ritur uocabulum, inueniri potest. ... Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plinii epistola, ad Titum Vespasianu[m] corrigitur, cum graeco, quod in aliis non habetur. Cornelii Vitellii in eum ipsum libellum Sypontini annotationes. Hoc inueniendorum uocabulorum ordine, a nobis nuper inuento, no[n] licet cuiq[uam] in Dominio ill. .S. .V. Hoslinguae latinae commentarios impune imprimere.

Accession number: 
PML 337
Author: 
Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480.
Published: 
Venetiis. : In aedibus Aldi, mense Iulio .M. ID. [July 1499].
Description: 
60, 642, [2] pages ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Title from contents list (leaf [pi]1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf I11v): VENETIIS. IN AEDIBVS ALDI. MENSE IVLIO .M.ID. Hunc librum non licet cuiq[uem] in locis & Dominio Illu. S.V. imp[er]une typis excudere.
Printed in Aldus's types 115R, 9:84Gk, and 10:82R.
Signatures: [pi]-⁵[pi]⁶; a-z¹⁰ A-H¹⁰ I¹²: 352 leaves, leaf I12 blank. Leaves 2-30 (quires [pi]-⁵[pi]) numbered at foot of page.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
Edited, with an index by Aldo Manuzio.
Commentary on Martial's Liber de spectaculis and book 1 of the Epigrammata.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: I12 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century English gilt-tooled, black morocco over paper boards (33 x 22.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with vellum fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae commentarii

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations and headlines, in two different hands throughout, many bleached.

Provenance: 
Unidentified inscription: "Collegii Ep[isco]palis vicu[??] ad S. Nicolaum" (leaf [pi]/1r); Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); his sale, Evans (London), 23 June 1834, lot 1265 to Payne for £16.10.0 for Acheson; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased in 1834 from Payne & Foss for £18.2.0, armorial booklabel (front pastedown), bibliographical note and shelf mark: A5 (front fly leaf verso); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books