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Ivliano consvli ac patricio Priscianvs salvtem.

Accession number
PML 24560
Creator
Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Object title

Ivliano consvli ac patricio Priscianvs salvtem.

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
Century
Department