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Liber faceciarum.

Accession number
PML 19326
Creator
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
Object title

Liber faceciarum.

Published

[Lübeck] : [Lucas Brandis], [about 1476]

Description

[72] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Author also cited as Poggius Florentinus.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁶ (6+1: Mirabile iudicium) 4⁶ 5-6¹⁰ 7¹⁰ (10+1: ille ad exitu[m]) 8⁸]: 72 leaves, leaves [8]/7-8 blank. Alternate collations in GW and King's College Cambridge. Watermark pairings don't support the presence of a blank at folio 19 as cited by Undorf 3212.
Explicit (leaf [8]/1v): Poggii florentini secretarii apostolici faceciarum liber absolutus est feliciter.
Hain 13178 is probably the Lyons edition, about 1480 (cf BMC VIII 243) (ISTC).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf [7]/7 previously misbound.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21.2 cm
Printed in Brandis's type 1*:111G.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Poggii florentini Oratoris clarissimi co[n]fabulacionum seu facecia[rum] liber faceciarum incipit feliciter.
Binding
17th/18th-century(?) blind-stamped limp parchment, sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Liber facetiarum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1911 (accessioned July 1912).
Classification
Century
Department