Accession number:
PML 39670.4
Published:
[Florence] : [Lorenzo Morgiani], [apporoximately 1496].
Description:
[6] leaves ; 20.5 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1948.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. GW assigns to Morgiani and Johann Petri; note in ISTC stating Bühler assigns to Morgiani and Petri (but what source? -- not PML Checklist or 1958 article).
Printed in Morgiani's type 4:86R.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
The Epistola has a line of type at the end reading 'Seb. P. faciebat', and 'Idem fecit' at the end of the frottola.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.8 x 13.1 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English blind-tooled straight-grained brown morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Epistola consolatoria dei caldi, freddi e tiepidi
Provenance:
William Roscoe (1753-1831), bound 4 works together; his sale, Winstanley (Liverpool), 19 August 1816, lot 1054; Richard Heber (1773-1833); Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Sotheby's, part IX, 11 April 1836, lot 2479; Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), shelf mark: F.7 (front fly leaf), through inheritance to his son: George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926); Holford sale, Sotheby's, part II, 5 Dec. 1927, lot 679; unidentified Greek alphabet price code (front fly leaf); Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 7 Oct. 1935; H.P. Kraus, cat. 44 (1948), no. 169; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Kraus, 1948.
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