Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Incommincia una practica molto bona et utile a ciaschaduno chi vuole uxare larte dela merchadantia, chiamata vulgarmente larte de labbacho.

Accession number
PML 28288
Object title

Incommincia una practica molto bona et utile a ciaschaduno chi vuole uxare larte dela merchadantia, chiamata vulgarmente larte de labbacho.

Published

A Triviso : [Michele Manzolo], A di .10. Dece[m]b[rum]. 1478.

Description

62 unnumbered leaves : typographic diagrams ; 21.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1931.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
City and date from colophon, leaf [8]/8r.
Printed in Manzolo's type 1:82G, mixed with 1*86G.
ISTC assigns printing to Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, see BMC VI 883.
Collation: [1-6⁸ 7⁶ 8⁸]: 62 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 14.0 cm.
Binding
18th-century(? Austrian?) half alum-tawed pigskin, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports.
Variant title
Arte dell' abbaco
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary/16th-century Italian marginal notations and calculations, moderately throughout text.
Provenance
Steinaweg (Austria), Göttweig Abbey, Benedictines, deaccessioned likely in the 1920s (ex-info Agostino Conto, see email in dept. file); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Emil Hirsch, May 1931.
Classification
Century
Department