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.

Accession number:

PML 20073

Author:

Pontano, Lodovico, 1409-1439.

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.

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.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Leather bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books