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De raptu Proserpinae.

Accession number
PML 24641
Creator
Claudianus, Claudius.
Object title

De raptu Proserpinae.

Published

[Rome] : [Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia], [approximately 1475]

Description

[22] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Schurener's type 1a:101R.
22 Bl. [1-2⁸ 3⁶]: 22 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 15 cm.
Binding
Modern patterned paper over paper boards (22.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Modern textual notations/corrections by Belle Greene, throughout.
Provenance
Unidentified modern price code, in pencil (not typically Harper, in a very neat hand): CT | -- | -- (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., June 1927.
Classification
Century
Department