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Fenestella de Romanorum magistratibus incipit.

Accession number
PML 51414.1
Creator
Fenestella, L. (Lucius), -1452.
Object title

Fenestella de Romanorum magistratibus incipit.

Published

[Florence] : [Bartolommeo di Libri], [approximately 1492]

Description

[52] leaves ; 21.5 cm. (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1961.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. GW dates to after 1487.
Printed in Libri's types 2:115R with 3:114G.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f-g⁶: 52 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14 cm.
Binding
Early-16th century (ca. 1515-1520) blind-tooled Italian goatskin over pasteboards (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Blind-stamped on both covers with a portrait medallion of Julius Caesar. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; modern decorative endbands; gilt and guaffered edges (worn). 2 ties, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unnecessary. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Angelo P[???]ti, abraded inscription (partially visible under UV: "[Ad usum D. Angelo P[???]ti ?R?T] Haec optima eclitio" (leaf a2r of Sallust), unidentified Italian scholar in the circle of Pomponio Leto, contemporary annotations (throughout Sallust); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [delta nu omega], purchased Aug. 1905 (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3134; Arthur Kay (d. 1939), engraved bookplate (front pastedow); his sale, Sotheby's 29 May 1930, lot 315 for £15.15s; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Rosenthal, 1961.
Classification
Century
Department