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A. Gellij viri disertissimi Noctium Atticarum libri XX. Summa accuratione Ioannis Cõnelli Carnoteñ. ad recognitionẽ Beroaldinã repositi: cum alphabetico indice.

Accession number
PML 125334
Creator
Gellius, Aulus.
Published
[Parisiis] Venundantur in edibus Joannis Parui sub lilio [1511]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Colophon: Impressas rursum ad exẽplar Beroaldinȩ recognitionis in ȩdib? qdẽ Ascensianis impẽse aũt Ioãnis Parui Bibliopolae nobilissimi. Anno salutis nr̃ȩ M.D.XI. ad IdusNouemb.
Petit's device on title page; initials.
Signatures: ã8 (ã verso blank) a-C (8s and 4s alternating) D4 (D4 verso blank)
P. Renouard. Bibl. des impressions et des oeuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius, v. 2, p. 463; Bib. nat.
PML copy imperfect.
Description
8 p.L., clxvii numb. L., 1 L. 22 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary annotations in multiple hands inside covers and throughout text; annotations inside lower cover in Latin and Greek.
Provenance
"Claude quoque[t?]" inscription inside upper cover (seventeenth century), earlier inscriptions unidentified; inscription on title page obscured. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled leather (goat?) over paperboards; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label and two clasps on fore-edge (only one catchplate remains on lower cover, both straps wanting).
Classification
Department