Accession number:
PML 176
Published:
[Nuremberg] : [Anton Koberger], [1472?]
Description:
[48] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from incipi (leaf [1]/2r): Poggy florentini Oratoris eloquentissimi. ac secretary ap[osto]lici. facetia[rum] liber incipit feliciter.
Explicit (leaf [5]/6r): Poggy florentini ac secretary apostolici facetia[rum] liber expletus est feliciter.
Printed in Koberger's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1¹² 2⁸ 3-4¹⁰ 5⁸]: 48 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [5]/7-8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.4 x 17.3 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (27 x 18 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; edges colored red.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and red capital strokes; illuminated initial with foliate border decoration (leaf [1]/2r). Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance:
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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