Accession number:
PML 22108
Uniform title:
Ancroia.
Published:
Venice : Filippo di Pietro, 28 September 1479.
Description:
[244] leaves ; 31.5 x 21 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Incipit (leaf a2r): LIBRO DEL ANCROIA. [R]Egina madre del lo eterno dio.
Colophon (leaf ee9v): Il libro de lanchroia qui finisse i[m]presso ne la magnifica cita de vi[n]esia ne glanni dil signore. 1479 ali giorni .28. di sete[m]bre p[er] magistro philipo de piero miser Johanne mozenico felicissimo duce i[n] perante Et non in para lectore maraviglia die combatere terribile di questa donna. ...
Printed in types 2:113/115R and 4:80G.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-z [et] [rum] [con] aa-dd⁸ ee¹⁰: 244 leaves, leaves a1 and ee10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.3 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 (blank) and a10 (replaced in manuscript). Leaves a2 and ee1 remounted.
Binding:
18th/19th-century half black sheep(?) with marbled paper sides over paper boards (31.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title:
Libro del Ancroia.
Provenance:
Edward Davenport, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); unidentified (Davenport?) shelf mark: C. II. (front pastedown); unidentified French sale catalogue description (rear pastedown); Joseph Baer, cat. 695, no. 55; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Baer, Oct. 1923.
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