Accession number
PML 406
Creator
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.
Object title
Heptaplus Iohannis Pici Mirandule de septiformi sex dierum Geneseos enarratione ad Laurentium Medicem.
Published
[Florence] : [Bartolommeo di Libri], [not after 24 November 1489]
Description
[58] leaves ; 28.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption (leaf a2r).
Printed identified based on type.
In a letter of 24 Nov. 1489, Bartolommeo Fonzio thanks the editor Salviati for sending him a copy; cf. Bartholomaei Fontii Epistolarum Libri, ed. A. Daneloni (Messina, 2008) ep. II.14 (p. 86) (M.C. Davies).
Printed in Libri's type 2:115R.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g¹⁰: 58 leaves, leaf g10 blank.
Edited by Robertus Salviatus.
Salviatus dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici in preface (leaf a1v).
Blind bearer type visible (leaves a1 and g9).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.9 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: g10 (blank).
Printed identified based on type.
In a letter of 24 Nov. 1489, Bartolommeo Fonzio thanks the editor Salviati for sending him a copy; cf. Bartholomaei Fontii Epistolarum Libri, ed. A. Daneloni (Messina, 2008) ep. II.14 (p. 86) (M.C. Davies).
Printed in Libri's type 2:115R.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g¹⁰: 58 leaves, leaf g10 blank.
Edited by Robertus Salviatus.
Salviatus dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici in preface (leaf a1v).
Blind bearer type visible (leaves a1 and g9).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.9 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: g10 (blank).
Binding
19th-century half parchment, with paper sides.
Variant title
Heptaplus de septiformi sex dierum Geneseos enarratione
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (leaf a2r), otherwise not required. Annotations: No marginal notes in text, early manuscript foliation.
Provenance
Unidentified shelf mark: .8. (bottom edge); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), price code: w/wm/- +___ (front pastedown, erased); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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