Ivliano consvli ac patricio Priscianvs salvtem.

Accession number:

PML 24560

Author:

Priscian, active approximately 500-530.

Published:

[Milan] : [Printer of Servius, 'Commentarius in Vergilium', 1475 (Dominicus de Vespolate), for Boninus Mombritius], [approximately 1475]

Description:

[384] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1927.

Notes:

Title from caption (leaf a2r).
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in type 1:108R attributed to Printer of Servius, 'Commentarius in Vergilium'.
On the identity of the printer, see A. Ganda in La Bibliofilia 87 (1985) pp. 227-266.
Signatures: A¹⁰ b-h [i]⁸ l⁶ s k L m n O aa bb⁸; q⁸ [r²] t-z & [et]⁸; [rum] [con] cc-ee⁸ ff⁶; p⁸ q [qq⁶]: 384 leaves, leaf A1 blank. Signatures stamped in far bottom right corner. Collation according to BMC.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Benedictus Brognolus.
Initial spaces with printed guide letters.
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.2 x 22.5 cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: A1 (blank). Most printed signatures trimmed away.

Binding:

17th-18th-century vellum over paper boards (32.5 x 24 cm.), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Juliano consuli ac patricio Priscianus salutem

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in several hands and headlines, throughout work.

Provenance:

Archinto family of Milan, engraved armorial bookplate, 18th century (front pastedown); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [delta nu omega], purchased July 1899 (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1514 to Leighton for £5.5.0; unidentified ownership label: dog's head with bone in mouth (front fly leaf verso -- Bod-inc suggests the dell'Osso family of Ravenna); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, May 1927.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books