Accession number
PML 20073
Creator
Pontano, Lodovico, 1409-1439.
Object title
Incipiunt singularia notabilia cum addit[i]o[n]ibus in locis suis iuxta alphabeti ordinem insertis famosissimi utriusq[ue] iuris monarche domini Ludouici Pontani de Roma.
Published
[Rome] : [Apud Sanctum Marcum (Vitus Puecher)], [about 1475]
Description
[48] leaves ; 36 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916.
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r: Incipiunt singularia notabilia cum addit[i]o[n]ibus in locis suis iuxta alphabeti ordinem insertis famosissimi utriusq[ue] iuris monarche domini Ludouici Pontani de Roma qui suo tempore fuit auditor rote et ap[osto]lice sedis prothonotarius.
Printed in the types attributed to Apud Sanctum Marcum (Vitus Puecher) 2:103G and 3:180G.
PML Checklist (following Dunn and Martini) previously assigned this book to Sixtus Riessinger at Naples (ChL 1220).
Collation: [1-4⁸ 5⁶ 6¹⁰]: 48 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36 x 24 cm.
Printed in the types attributed to Apud Sanctum Marcum (Vitus Puecher) 2:103G and 3:180G.
PML Checklist (following Dunn and Martini) previously assigned this book to Sixtus Riessinger at Naples (ChL 1220).
Collation: [1-4⁸ 5⁶ 6¹⁰]: 48 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36 x 24 cm.
Binding
20th-century quarter brown leather, with paper sides, over paper boards (36 x 25 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; dark edges.
Variant title
Singularia notabilia cum additionibus in locis suis iuxta alphabeti ordinem insertis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [rho gamma], purchased Oct. 1899 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part 2, 2 Feb. 1914, lot 1507, to Luigi Lubrano (Naples) for £20; Giuseppe Martini, catalogue 12 (November 1915), no. 224 for $150; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Martini, April 1916.
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