A. Gellii Luculentiss. scriptoris Noctes Atticae : castigatae sunt emaculataeque diuersorum codicum collatione, nec id tamen sine doctioris cuiusdam iudicio: a quo & graeca, quae passim deprauatissima erant, sunt recognita, & quantum licuit, genuinae puritati restituta.

Accession number: 
PML 198641.2
Author: 
Gellius, Aulus.
Published: 
[Coloniae] : Eucharius Ceruicornus excudebat, Anno M.D. XXVI [1526].
Description: 
[24], 202, [26] ; 32 cm (fol.)
Notes: 

Imprint from title page, place of publication from colophon (leaf T6r): "Coloniae in aedibus Eucharij Ceruicorni, sumptu et aere Godefridi Hittorpij ciuis Colonien. nonis Martijs [7 March]."
Preface by the editor and publisher Godefridus Hittorpius.
Title page with decorative woodcut border with Dionysius and Cleopatra, for Cervicornus (printer's mark at top right) cut by Anton Woensam after the border designed for Froben at Basel by Hans Holbein the Younger and cut by Hans Lützelburger (see Hans Holbein d.J. : die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel (Basel, 1997), nos. 41 and 41b).
"Interpretatio Dictionum Graecarum": 13 leaves at end.
Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.
Signatures: aa-bb⁶; A-T⁶.

Binding: 
Contemporary Belgian blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards (32.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Manuscript waste pastedowns and plain paper fly leaves; braided leather cord endbands. Corner edge pieces; 2 clasps, missing. Fore-edge manuscript title: QVIN.GEL.MA.
Variant Title: 

Noctes Atticae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Unidentified Greek inscriptions (upper border of top board and front pastedown). Two drawings: male head in profile and hawk (rear endleaf).

Provenance: 
Reinerus Tengnagell, of Arnhem, inscription: “Rhenerus Arnhem, alias Tengnagell” (front pastedown) and monogram cypher (front endleaf 1 recto), through inheritance to (perhaps his sons?): Gregor Tengnagell (born about 1555, Louvain), inscription: “Ex libris Gregoii Tengnagell” (Quintilian, leaf AA1r) and his brother Philip Tengnagell, donation inscription to Georg Wilhelm von Helfenstein: “Illustri ac generoso Domino D[omi]no Georgio Wilhelmo, Comiti in Helfenstein Baroni in Gundelfingen [??] Philippus Tengnagell I.C. Dono dedit. A[nn]o D[omi]ni 1615. 5. Feb[ruar]ii.” (Quintilian, leaf AA1r), with second inscription: "Georgius Wilhemus. In Helffenstein hunc [crossed out: librum hunc donit] librum I.M. scriba Paeceptorii suo propter [???] studia" and "Tam diu quam vivat hunc possidebit librum" (Quintilian, leaf AA1v), the bulk of the Helfenstein library passed to the Fürstenberg library at Donaueschingen; unidentified monogram stamp in purple ink: “E S” in rounded rectangle (front pastedown and front endleaf 1 recto); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Martayan Lan, Oct. 2020.
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