Accession number:
PML 16391
Published:
[Venice] : Nicolaus Jenson, 21 May 1471.
Description:
[212] leaves ; 33.5 x 23.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [22]/10r): QUINTILIANUM ELOQUENTIAE FONTEM AB ERUDITISSIMO OMNIBONO LEONICENO EMENDATUM .M. NICOLAUS JENSON GALLICUS VIVENTIBUS POSTERISQUE MIRO IMPRESSIT ARTIFICIO. ANNIS .M.CCCCLXXI. MENSE MAII DIE .XXI.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1²; 2-22¹⁰]: 212 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Omnibonus Leonicenus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.7 x 22.4 cm.
Binding:
19th century French full red goatskin with gilt-tooled turn-ins over heavy paper boards (33.5 x 23.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Hardy-Mennil. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Running headlines and foliation, 16th century. A few contemporary marginal notations, washed/faded, and a few Greek words added to text in manuscript.
Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Nov. 1909.
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