Incomincia il prolago sopra la Historia di Troia / co[m]posita per Guido Giudice di Cholo[n]na di Messi[n]a.

Accession number: 
PML 329
Author: 
Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.
Published: 
Nella Inchlita citta di Venexia : Impressa per Antonio de Allexandria della Paglia, Bartholomeo da Fossombrono dela Marcha & Marchesino di Sauioni Milanese, negli anni della incarnatione 1481.
Description: 
[108] leaves ; 24.5 x 18 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a[2]r): Incomincia il prolago sopra la historia di troia. Co[m]posita per guido giudice di cholo[n]na di messia.
Colophon (leaf o5r): Questa presente opera: e stata impressa per Antonio de Allexandria della paglia. Bartholomeo da Fossombrono dela Marcha & Marchesino di Savioni Milanese. nella inchlita citta di Venexia: negli anni della incarnatione. .M.CCCC.LXXXI.
Printed in type 1:90R.
Collation: a-g⁸ h⁶ i-n⁸ o⁶: 108 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a, a3 signed a2, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Filippo Ceffi.
Capital spaces with guide letters; in double columns.
Variant colophon known, cf HC(Add) 5523; Morg(B) 328 (Goff).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.2 x 17.2 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century full black goatskin, blind-tooled in an early pastiche style over paper boards (24.5 x 18 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Red goatskin doublures, marbled paper and plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Historia di Troia

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, northern Italian alternating red and blue initials (some with filigree penwork) and C-type paragraph marks. Annotations: Reader's inscription at end (leaf o6v): "finis. 1483. 17 sept. .f." No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf) and bibliographical notes: No. 71, 13/7/94 (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Retrospective bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books