Accession number:
PML 437
Published:
[Florence] : [Bartolommeo di Libri], [after August 1497]
Description:
[98] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Libri's types 2:115R and 3:114G.
Dated after Aug. 1497 in CIBN, 1497? by Goff and BMC.
Signatures: [1]²; a-m⁸: 98 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
"Tabula capitulorum": leaves [1]/1v-2v.
34 lines and headline. Capital spaces with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 21.1 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (29 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with older plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title:
Triumphus crucis de ueritate fidei
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Edmnd Henry Barker (1788-1839), signature (front fly leaf verso), his sale, Wheatley, 1 June 1836, lot 1522; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: s/-/- +___ (front fly leaf verso, erased); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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