Accession number:
PML 16531
Published:
Venetiis : per Baptistam de tortis, M.CCCC.Lxxxvii. die. xxiii. maii. [23 May 1487]
Description:
[243] leaves ; 31.5 x 22 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf D8v): Venetiis per Baptistam de tortis M.CCCC.L.xxxvii. die .xxiii. maii.
Printed in types 1*:114R and 2:78R.
Collation: Signatures: a-n⁸ o⁸(+2*: Tela sonant) p-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-C⁸ D¹⁰: 243 leaves, leaves D9-10 blank. The first leaf o3 is an added singleton.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis, with argumenta (comm. Servius).
Capital spaces without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 21 cm.
Binding:
18th-century French calf over paper boards (31.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 6 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Variant Title:
Carmine minora
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication bleached. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in Georgics (quires d-f), bleached.
Provenance:
Inscription, abraded: [??] [??] 1888, no. 2986; Ernest Thorin, bookseller's ticket (front pastedown); C. Bailly-Bailliere Libreria, Madrid, embossed stamp (leaves a1 and a2); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1910.
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