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Terentianvs De litteris syllabis et metris Horatii.

Accession number
PML 25868
Creator
Terentianus Maurus.
Object title

Terentianvs De litteris syllabis et metris Horatii.

Published

Impressum Mediolani : per magistrum Vldericum Scinzenzeler, Anno a partu Virginis salutifero. M.cccc.xcvii. pridie Nonis Frebuarii. [4 February 1497]

Description

[42] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint details from colophon on g6r.
Printed in Scinzenzeler's types 1:76R and 3:111R.
Signatures: [a⁴] b⁸ c-g⁶: 42 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
With privilege to print granted to Georgius Galbiatus by Ludovicus Maria Sforza and countersigned by B. Calchus, dated from Vigevano 5 September 1496: [a1v]. Five other works are listed in the privilege, but only this one seems to have been actually printed.
Edited by Georgius Galbiatus, Giorgio Merula and Johannes Crastonus -- see privilege, dedicatory letter and preface.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.1 x 19.2 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century (English?) calf over paper boards (28 x 20 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Variant title
Terentianus De litteris syllabis et metris Horatii
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription (shelf mark?): 17A 20S (front fly leaf verso); Lathrop C. Harper, Catalogue of a Selection of Incunabula, part II (1928), no. 395; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Harper, July 1928.
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Department