Accession number
PML 22213.2
Creator
Sirigattis, Franciscus de.
Object title
Prognosticon, 1482.
Published
[Florence] : [Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini], [after 10 January 1482]
Description
[12] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Text signed at end, leaf a11v: Per me Franciscum de sirigattis civem Florentinu[m] Annno [sic] .D.M.ccc.lxxxii Die .x. ianuarii Florentiȩ taliter iudicata.
Printed in Miscomini's type 3:110R.
Signatures: a¹²: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 14.5 cm.
Text signed at end, leaf a11v: Per me Franciscum de sirigattis civem Florentinu[m] Annno [sic] .D.M.ccc.lxxxii Die .x. ianuarii Florentiȩ taliter iudicata.
Printed in Miscomini's type 3:110R.
Signatures: a¹²: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
15th-century half leather ("an Italian schoolbook style binding") over beech boards (22 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports; repaired. A bifolium of a parchment manuscript sacramentary used as front and rear endleaves. Plain endbands. 1 clasp. Contemporary manuscript title inscriptions on exterior and interior of top board.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout Oppian, probably by Flaminio.
Provenance
Gian Antonio Flaminio (1464-1536), signatures: "Liber Antonio Flaminii" (front and rear manuscript endleaves and leaf a1r of Oppian); Giovanni Maria de Ragazzinio, inscription: "Ex libris Joannis Mariȩ de Ragazzinii," 16th century (leaf a1r of Oppian); unidentified octagonal black ink stamp with adorsed monogram: PRM(?) (leaves a1r and h8r of Oppian and leaf [1]/1r of Georgius de Hungaria); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1923.
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