Morgante Maggiore.

Accession number:

PML 41325

Author:

Pulci, Luigi, 1432-1484.

Published:

Impersso in Venetia: per Manfredo di bonello de monserato da Strevo, dellanno i[n]carnatio[n]e del nostro signore iesu [christ]o .M.cccclxxxxiiii. adi ultimo Octobrio [31 October 1494].

Description:

[204] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Gift of the Fellows, 1950.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [con]11v: Finito il libro appellato Morgante maggiore sacto come e decto al principio da Luigi de pulci ad petione della excellentissima mona Lucretia di Piero di Cosimo demedici. Impersso in Venetia per Manfredo di bonello de monserato da Strevo. dellanno i[n]carnatio[n]e del nostro signore iesu [christ]o .M.cccclxxxxiiii. adi ultimo Octobrio Ritracto dalla origine vero & riveduto & correcto dal proprio auctore ch[e] idio felicemente co[n]servi & dia piacere a chil lege con salute della anima & del corpo. Amen.
Printed in Bonellis's type 6:81R.
Signatures: a-z &⁸ [con]¹²: 204 leaves, leaf [con]12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 14.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [con]12 (blank).

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled vellum with extended fore-edges (Yapp edges) over paper boards (22 x 16 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication, contemporary alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Arthur Rau as the gift of the Fellows, Jan. 1950.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books