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Enarrationes allegoricæ fabularum fulgentii placiadis.

Accession number
PML 20705
Creator
Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades.
Object title

Enarrationes allegoricæ fabularum fulgentii placiadis.

Published

Impressum Mediolani : p[er] magistru[m] Vldericu[m] scinzenzeler, anno D[omi]ni. Mcccclxxxxviii. die. xxiii. mensis aprilis [23 April 1498].

Description

[48] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf f5v).
Printed in Scinzenzeler's types 3:111R, 10:80R, and 14:110Gk.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁴ f-g⁶: 48 leaves, leaf f6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited and with commentary by Johannes Baptista Pius.
Main text typographically distinguished from the commentary that surrounds it.
Woodcut initials throughout.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.7 cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: f6 (blank).
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled dark green goatskin over paper boards (31 x 21 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Capé. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Enarrationes allegoricae fabularum Fulgentii Planciadis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Paris, Part V, 11 June 1883, lot 450; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [chi phi], purchased Jan. 1901 (front endleaf 2 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 2 Feb. 1914, lot 1105 to Ellis for £3; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Ellis, Sept. 1919.
Classification
Century
Department