Accession number:
PML 19573
Published:
[Venice] : [Vindelinus de Spira], 1471.
Description:
[202] leaves ; 32 x 22 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Explicit (leaf [20]/6v): Finis .M.CCCC.LXXI. Cur hec sculpantur q[uam]vis obscoena requiris / Da veniam sunt hec scripta marone tamen.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: [1-19¹⁰ 20⁸]: 202 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [18]/10, and [20]/7-8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Includes: Culex. Dirae. Copa. Est et non. Vir bonus. Rosae. Moretum. Priapea. (ISTC)
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21.1 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: [1]/1, [18]/10, and [20]/7-8 (all blanks).
Binding:
Early 20th-century (by 1912) gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (32 x 22 cm), sewn on 5 supports by René Kieffer, Paris. Silk and marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Illuminated initials on green or red ground; woodcut printed border decoration, hand colored with added armorial. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations sporadically throughout.
Provenance:
Unidentified (Venetian?) armorial: red, with 3 gold stars in a blue horizontal band across middle, with a gold N below (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified inscription, trimmed (leaf [1]/2r); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Paul Gottschalk, Dec. 1912.
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