Pontani opera : Vrania, sive de stellis libri quinq[ue]. Meteororum liber unus. De hortis Hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina sive postorales [!] pompae septem. Item Meliseus Maeon Acon. Hendecasyllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae uero in toto opere habeantur in indice, qui in calce est, licet videre.

Accession number

PML 1560

Creator

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1426-1503.

Published

Venetiis : in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri, M.D.XIII [1513].

Credit line

Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Notes

Title and contents from title page, with Aldine printer's mark below.
Imprint from colophon, leaf 255v; with Aldine prniter's mark on leaf [256]v, printed in red.
Signatures: a-z aa-ii⁸.

Description

255, [1] leaves ; 16.5 cm (8vo)

Provenance

Unidentified owner's name: ĪA ŌB (rear board; see also PML 1280, same initials on Beckford/Hamilton Palace Library copy of Valerius Maximus, Exempla, 1514); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel and shelfmark: A5 (front pastedown), purchased from Payne & Foss for £8.8.0, entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Binding

16th-century Italian (Venice?) gilt-tooled brown morocco over paper boards, similar to bindings by the Mendoza binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?); rebacked, with renewed pastedowns and endleaves. Gilt-tooled title: Pōtani. Vrania. (top board) and initials: ĪA ŌB (bottom board). Gilt and gauffered edges.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books