Accession number:
PML 198112
Published:
[Venice] : [Aldus Manutius, Romanus], [before 15 April 1498]
Description:
[1] leaf ; (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1950.
Notes:
A trial page, printed on one side only.
Title from heading caption.
Printed in Aldus's type 7:114Gk.
Dated 1499-1500 by Bühler, but the project to print Athenaeus is mentioned in a letter of Codrus Urceus, written from Bologna, 15 Apr. 1498 (P. Scapecchi).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.8 x 21.6 cm.
Variant Title:
Deipnosophistae
Provenance:
Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), inscription: "Beati Rhenani sum, nec muto dominum. Anno M.D.XIII Basilea," possibly served as the pastedown in one of Rhenanus's books; Damiano Muoni, bookseller stamp (verso); Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), collection of autographs dispersed through Rosenbach; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach, Nov. 1950.
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