Accession number:
PML 195808
Published:
[Florence] : [Lorenzo Morgiani], [approximately 1492-1496].
Description:
[8] leaves : woodcut ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 2012.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Morgiani's type 4:86R.
GW and IBE date to about 1495.
Signatures: a⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
This edition has minor typographic differences to Morgiani and Petri's about 1495 edition (GW 8007), also in type 4:86R.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.9 x 13.7 cm.
Binding:
Modern blind-tooled brown morocco over paper boards (20.7 x 14.3 cm), sewn on on 3 supports. Spine has 2 additional false bands. Modern paper pastedowns and flyleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Minor contemporary/early marginal annotations in light brown ink, mostly trimmed away.
Provenance:
Unidentified German sales catalogue description (front pastedown); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Martayan Lan on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, May 2012.
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