Egidius de Regimine Principum.

Accession number:

PML 787

Author:

Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316.

Published:

Venice : Simon Bevilaqua, 9 July 1498.

Description:

[136] leaves : Init. (woodcut) ; 312 mm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Kerr collection, 1903.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf A1r).
Imprints from colophon (leaf y6r): Impressum Venetiis per magistrum Si-/monem Beuilaquam Papie[n]sem Anno Domini Millesimo .CCCCLXXXXVIII. Die nona Mensis Iulii.
Printed in Bevilaqua's types 4:130G, 18*:82R, 19**:107R, and 22:120G.
Signatures: A⁴; a-y⁶: 136 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Oliverius Servius.
Reprint from the Roman edition by Stephan Plannck of 9 May 1482 (ISTC ia00088000): see BM 15th cent., V, 523.
Woodcut initial on leaf a1 recto.
Text in two columns.
Printed running titles.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions:30.4 x 20.2 cm.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (31 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Variant Title:

Aegidius de Regimine Principum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary Greek(?) inscription under colophon (leaf y6r).

Provenance:

John Edward Kerr; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Kerr collection, 1903.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books