Opera de facti e precepti militari di lo excellente misier Roberto Valturio Ariminese.

Accession number: 
PML 473
Author: 
Valturio, Roberto, 1405-1475.
Published: 
I[n]la Magnifica Cita di Verona : i[m]pressa cu[m] industria di Bonin di Boninis da Ragusi, lanno del Mille e quatrocento .lxxxiii. adi .xvii. de februario [17 February 1483].
Description: 
[314] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf a2r: Opera de facti e precepti militari di lo excellente misier Roberto Valturio Ariminese gia inscripta in latin a lo illustre signor Sigismondo Pandolpho Malatesta principe di Arimino et hora traducta in vulgar a nome et gloria del magnanimo capitanno e sempre felice in le bataglie signor Roberto di Aragonia di San Severino general loco tenente del serenissimo et ilustissimo senato Venetiano.
Imprint from colophon, leaf O8v: Di Roberto Valturio di Arimino opera de larte militare sinisse tra[n]slata per el spectabel doctor misier Paulo Ramusio de Arimino et i[m]pressa cu[m] industria di Bonin di Boninis da Ragusi i[n]la Magnifica Cita di Verona corrrendo [sic] lanno del Mille e quatrocento .lxxxiii. adi .xvii. de februario. Laudato sia idio finis.
Printed in Boninus's types 1:90G (leaf G1v only) and 2:113R.
Signatures: [1⁶]; a-d⁸ e⁶ f-g⁸ h¹⁰ i-u⁸ x-y⁶ z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A-B⁶ C-E⁸ F-G⁶ H-I⁸ K¹⁰ L-N⁸ O¹⁰: 314 leaves, leaves [1]/1, a1 and O10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column of 37 lines. Captial spaces, without guide letters.
Translated by Paolo Ramusio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.4 x 20.8 cm.
PML copy missing 10 leaves: [1]/1-6, a1 (blank), a8, O8, and O10 (blank), with leaves a8 and O8 replaced in facsimile.

Binding: 
18th-century(?) parchment over stiff paper boards (30 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges. Manuscript spine title for Biblioteca della Congregazione dell'Oratorio.
Variant Title: 

Opera dell'arte militare

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary or early-16th century foliation and hyphens added.

Provenance: 
Venice, Biblioteca della Congregazione dell'Oratorio, binding; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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