Accession number:
PML 125338
Published:
Parisiis : Apud Simomem Colinaeum, & Franciscum Stephanum, 1541.
Description:
[15], 247 leaves ; 18 cm (8vo)
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes:
Signatures: *, **, a-z, A-H⁸ (**8, H8 blank).
Criblé initials; spaces with guide letters for capitals.
Printed marginal notations in the "Terentii vita." Sentence numbers throughout.
Carolus Stephanus amuso suo S." leaves [2-3].
"Terentii vita, et de tragoedia ac comoedia non pauco, ex Aelio Donato." leaves [4-15].
Editied and translated by Charles Estienne.
Binding:
Contemporary blind-tooled leather over paperboards; manuscript on all edges; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label; edges colored red; sewing structure visible.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Manuscript title inside upper cover in contemporary hand, other inscriptions unidentified. List of quotes from Horace, Ovid, and Virgil (leaf **8r). Sparse contemporary annotations in second hand throughout first third of text.
Provenance:
"Thomas le pesure(?) [???]," inscription dated 1556/7 (leaf **7v); Pierre Paillette, purchase inscription from the bookseller Robert Co(u)lombel: "Ce present livre apartient a pierres paillette demeurant a la une [word obscured] de la la sicente de reney demeurant chez robert coullombel" (rear fly leaf) and ownership inscription: "Hic liber est petri palleti teste signo hic apposito" (inside upper cover), and Jehan and Pierre Paillett, inscriptions (rear fly leaf); from the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
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