Ioannis Tortellii Arretini commentiarium grammaticorum de orthographia dictionum

Accession number: 
PML 21682
Author: 
Tortelli, Giovanni, approximately 1400-1466.
Published: 
Venetiis feliciter impressum : per Nicolaum Jenson, .M.CCCC.LXXI [1471].
Description: 
[298] leaves ; 42 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Ioannis Tortellii Arretini commentariorvm grammaticorvm de orthographia dictionvm e graecis tractarvm prooemivm incipit ad sanctissimvm patrem Nicolavm qvintvm pontificem maximvm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [31]/9v: Ioannis Tortellii Arretini commentariorvm de orthographia dictionvm e graecis tractarvm opvs finit .M.CCCC.LXXI. per Nicolavm Ienson gallicvm Venetiis feliciter impressum. Deo gratias.
Printed in Jenson's type 1:115R and 10:115Gr.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-8¹⁰ 9-10⁸ 11-13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-24¹⁰ 25⁸ 26-31¹⁰]: 298 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [31]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
BMC and CIBN describe variants.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.5 x 28 cm.

Binding: 
20th-century quarter dark brown goatskin, over original 15th-century Italian wooden boards (42 x 29 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez Lahey, 1944, preserving former pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian (Venetian?) rubrication, blue initials; primary initials (leaves [1]/2r and 3r) illuminated with white vine on blue, pale red, and green ground. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in an Italian hand sporadically throughout text. Manuscript title on fore edge.

Provenance: 
Corvino family, of Venice, armorial (leaf [1]/2r); Florence (Tuscany), Dominicans, San Marco (indicated in the manuscript description by Giuseppe Martini, in PML item folder); Florence (Tuscany), Benedictines Camaldolese, inscription citing that the volume was stolen (from San Marco?) the night of Savonarola's arrest (1498) and then confiscated during confession by Pietro Benincasa, prior of the Camaldoli of Florence, who exchanged it with Pietro Delfino (1444-1525), general of the Camaldoli for a manuscript Italian Bible (glued-in to rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding; see Bühler, Curt F. “Savonarola's Arrest and the Theft of a Book: Libri Impressi Cum Notis Manuscriptis, VII.” Renaissance News 7, no. 3 (1954): 95-97), perhaps passed do: Camaldoli (Tuscany), Benedictines Camaldolese, multiple later inscriptions and shelfmarks, "S. Camaldulens[is] eremi III -- i" then in another ink: "Inscrip. Catal[og]o I V -- 5" (leaf [1]/2r), numeral: "CLXXV," 15th/16th century (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), "Camaldoli fo. 13058" (front endleaf 1 recto, preserved from previous binding), Camaldolese armorial booklabel with shelfmark: A G.N.V.3. (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); unidentified bibliographic inscription, citing a copy sold in 1767 for 75 lire Tornesi (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); H.C. Hoskier, purchase inscription from Jacques Rosenthal for M450, Oct. 1902 (front endleaf 1 recto, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Sotheby's London, 29 June 1908, lot 37, to: Bernard Quartich, Inc., collation note by F.S. Ferguson, 4 July 1908; Walter Thomas Wallace, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, American Art Association, 22 March 1922, lot 1413; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, May 1922.
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