Opera.

Accession number: 
PML 241
Author: 
Apuleius.
Published: 
Rome : In domo Petri de Maximis, .M.CCCC.lxix ... die vero ulitma mensis Februarii [28 February 1469].
Description: 
[178] leaves ; 34.5 (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [18]/7v: Lucii Apuleii platonici madaure[n]sis philosophi metamorphoseos liber: ac no[n[nulla alia opuscula eiusdem: necnon epitoma Alcinoi in disciplinaru[m] Platonis desinunt. Anno saulti .M.CCCC.lxix. Paulo ueneto regnante secundo. anno eius q[ui]nto die uero ultima mensis Februarii. Rome in domo Petri de Maximo.
Printed in Sweynheym and Pannartz's type 2:115R and 3:116Gr.
Collation: [1⁸; 2-14¹⁰ 15-16¹² 17¹⁰ 18⁸]: 178 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [1]/8, [16]/12 and [18]/8 blank. PML copy is variant of collation to GW and BMC.
Paper format: Median folio.
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
The Albinus, Epitome is erroneously ascribed in the early editions to Alcinous (see R.E. Witt, Albinus and the history of middle Platonism, Cambridge, 1937). De mundo is the Latin reworking by Apuleius of the Pseudo- Aristotelian tract. The translation of Asclepius is probably not by Apuleius (CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 34.5 x 23 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century full olive brown morocco, with gilt-filet decoration, over paper boards (34.5 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Charles Lewis. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text; a few decorative brackets. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mostly trimmed. Unidentified inscriptions/annotations, not legible under UV (leaves [1]/2r and [18]/8v).

Provenance: 
Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Payne & Foss 1837, armorial booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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