Incominza el libro primo Dita mvndi / cvmponvto per Fazio di glvberti da Firenza.

Accession number: 
PML 21995
Author: 
Uberti, Fazio degli, approximately 1310-approximately 1370, author.
Published: 
[Vicenza, Italy] : [Leonardus Achates de Basilea], [25 November? 1474]
Description: 
[106] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Imprint and date as given in ISTC. Colophon, in verse, reads in part: "Mia fama rinoua per sua cortesia / maestro leonardo con mirabel stampa / ilqual gia naque ne lalte Basilia / Vincentia adunque in piu virtute auampa ... Compiuto fui un mese in uer natale / mille setanta quatro.e quatrociento...". The colophon reads 'un mese in ver natale'. About its correct reading cf. BMC VII p. lxii (note).
Printed in Achates type 4:97R.
Signatures: a-m⁸ n⁶ o⁴: 106 leaves. The signatures are set with their baseline 55 mm below the descenders of the last line of text (less than 1 mm variation), at the right margin.
Paper format: Chancery folio
"Editio princeps of Uberti's Dittamundo 'un mese in uer' natale', that is, one month towards or off Christmas, which, if we are to interpret it in all strictness, means 25 November"--British Museum catalogue, VII, page lxii. The entry itself reads "*[November], 1474".
In verse (terza rima), recounting a fictional journey around the known world.
In 2 columns, 39 lines, 189 x 158 mm. First letter of each stanza set out. Capital spaces without guide-letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20.2 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century English gilt-tooled citron morocco over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Incominza el libro primo Dita mundi

Inscriptions/Markings: 

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

Provenance: 
Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: B 3: 28 (front fly leaf verso), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough, shelf mark: 62. d. 15 (front fly leaf verso); Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part II, 17 April 1882, lot 4478, purchased by Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased April 1882 (front pastedown); unidentified French dealer catalogue description, no. 436 and Italian catalogue description (front fly leaf verso); J.P. Morgan, Jr., (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch (collation note July 1921, rear fly leaf), March 1923.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books