Accession number
PML 22409
Creator
Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487.
Object title
Sidonii apollinaris poema Aureum eiusdemq[ue] epistole.
Published
Impressum Mediolanni : per magistrum Vldericum sci[n]zenzeler. Impensis uenerabilium dominorum Presbyteri Hyeronimi de Asula necnon Ioannis de abbatibus place[n]tini, Sub Anno domini .M.cccc.Lxxxxyiii. Quarto Nonas maias [4 May 1498].
Description
[144] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1924.
Notes
Title from title page on leaf A1 recto.
Imprint from colophon (leaf s8r): Impressum Mediolanni per magistrum Vldericum sci[n]zenzeler. Impensis uenerabilium dominorum Presbyteri Hyeronimi de Asula necnon Ioannis de abbatibus place[n]tini. Sub Anno domini .M.cccc.Lxxxxyiii. Quarto Nonas maias.
Printed in Scinzenzeler's types 3:111R, 4:168G, and 10:80R.
Signatures: A⁴; a-b⁶ c-s⁸: 144 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited and with commentary by Johannes Baptista Pius.
Woodcut initials throughout.
Variants: a) "scnis" for "senis" on leaf A4 recto, last word; b) "cyclop" for "cyclopi" on leaf c8 recto, last word; c) incomplete printer's register ending "preter a & b qui sunt terni.", for "a & b qui sunt terni. & A qui est duernus / Finis": see BM 15th, VI, 773, and Hillard 1846.
Main text typographically distinguished from the commentary that surrounds it.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 21 cm.
Imprint from colophon (leaf s8r): Impressum Mediolanni per magistrum Vldericum sci[n]zenzeler. Impensis uenerabilium dominorum Presbyteri Hyeronimi de Asula necnon Ioannis de abbatibus place[n]tini. Sub Anno domini .M.cccc.Lxxxxyiii. Quarto Nonas maias.
Printed in Scinzenzeler's types 3:111R, 4:168G, and 10:80R.
Signatures: A⁴; a-b⁶ c-s⁸: 144 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited and with commentary by Johannes Baptista Pius.
Woodcut initials throughout.
Variants: a) "scnis" for "senis" on leaf A4 recto, last word; b) "cyclop" for "cyclopi" on leaf c8 recto, last word; c) incomplete printer's register ending "preter a & b qui sunt terni.", for "a & b qui sunt terni. & A qui est duernus / Finis": see BM 15th, VI, 773, and Hillard 1846.
Main text typographically distinguished from the commentary that surrounds it.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 21 cm.
Binding
18th-century English blind-tooled diced calf over paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Roger Payne(?); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Sidonii Apollinaris Poema Aureum eiusdemque epistolae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Decorative ruling lines around title. Annotations: A few sporadic marginal notations.
Provenance
Arbury Library (Cambridge, UK), booklabel (front pastedown); unidentified shelf marks: H13, 33111, and Q.5.11 (front fly leaves); Acton Griscom, signature (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Mr. Griscom, June 1924.
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