Accession number
PML 25128
Creator
Plutarch.
Published
Neapoli : Ex officina Antonii de Fritiis Corinaldini ..., anno 1526 Iunio mense.
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Signatures: A-B⁶ C-D⁴; AA-CC⁶ DD⁴ [cross]⁶ 2[cross]⁸; A-Y⁶ Z⁴ &⁴; leaves 1D4, &4 blank.
Blind type on fly leaf before leaf A1r.
Printed from a manuscript owned by Acquaviva and dedicated to his son-in-law Giovanni Caracciolo, Prince of Malfi.
PML copy on vellum, with some incipits and geometric diagrams printed in gold.
PML copy wanting 27 leaves: E1, E6, F1-I6, and K6; replaced by Harper with leaves from a paper copy.
Blind type on fly leaf before leaf A1r.
Printed from a manuscript owned by Acquaviva and dedicated to his son-in-law Giovanni Caracciolo, Prince of Malfi.
PML copy on vellum, with some incipits and geometric diagrams printed in gold.
PML copy wanting 27 leaves: E1, E6, F1-I6, and K6; replaced by Harper with leaves from a paper copy.
Description
3 pts. in 1 v. ([20] leaves; [36] leaves; CXXXVIII, [2] leaves (leaf [CXL] blank) : ill. (woodcut) ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Illuminated borders (leaves AA2r and A2r), foliate decoration in gutters at book incipits (leaves 1A4r, AA5r, P4r, and T6r), and initials, attributed to Rinaldo (Reginaldo) Piramo but more likely an assistant/follower. Several diagrams of planetary orbits painted. Annotations: Contemporary Italian inscription, worn in places (leaf &4v).
Provenance
Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, duca d'Atri (1457??-1529) or Giovanni Caracciolo, duca di Melfi (1487-1559), armorial: blue lion on a gold shield (leaf 2A2r); Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), his sale, Evans, 11 May 1824, pt. 3, lot 143, to Triphook for £10.5.-; David S. Ker, his sale, London, 1 Feb. 1848, pt. 2, no. 1253; unidentified pencil price codes and notes (3rd fly leaf recto); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), his sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1898, lot 2859, to Tregaskis for £18.10s; Michael Tomkinson, his sale, London, 3 July 1922; Lathrop C. Harper, purchased in Paris in 1926; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Harper, 1927.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled blue morocco by Riviere and Son.
Classification
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