Accession number
PML 488
Creator
Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478.
Object title
Augustini Dati Senensis isagogicus libellus in eloque[n]tie precepta, ad Andrea domini Christoferi filium feliciter incipit.
Published
[Paris] : [Au Soufflet Vert (Louis Symonel et Socii)], [approximately 1476]
Description
[40] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Louis Symonel et Socii (Au Soufflet Vert) type 1:106R.
Collation: [1-5⁸]: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13.3 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Louis Symonel et Socii (Au Soufflet Vert) type 1:106R.
Collation: [1-5⁸]: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13.3 cm.
Binding
18th-century (English?) calf over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Elegantiolae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue (faded) initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Unidentified contemporary inscription, not legible under UV (leaf [1]/1r); no further notations in text.
Provenance
Unidientified monogram: "AAI," in blank ink with letters nested under each other (leaf [5]/8v); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and purchase inscription with price code, Aug. 1892: "mr/ 8/92," (front endleaf 1 verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: o/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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