Modus conficiendi epistolas.

Accession number:

PML 79815

Author:

Traversagni, Lorenzo Guglielmo, 1425-1503.

Published:

[Paris] : p[er] Anthoniu[m] cayllaut, [about 1493]

Description:

[8] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1989.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Printer from colophon, leaf a8r: Modus conficiendi epistolas perbrevis fratris Guilermi Sophonensis oratoris elega[n]tissimi feliciter finem habet p[er] Anthoniu[m] cayllaut.
Dated by Hillard from the types, the address "ad intersignium hominis silvestris" and the state of the device. GW dates ca. 1491/92 based on the address and device, see Renouard, Imprimeurs, p. 83.
Signatures: a⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Caillaut's printer's mark with S. Antonius and initials AC, leaf a1r.
Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
The author also appears in catalogues as Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni and Guillermus Saphonensis (the name used in the text).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 13.3 cm.

Binding:

Modern blind-tooled half calf, with brown paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Laurence Witten Rare Books, March 1989.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Half bindings (Binding)

Calf bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books