Accession number:
PML 20719.1
Published:
[Venice] : [Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis], [approximately 1490-1495].
Description:
[16] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Rubeus's type 2:82R.
Signatures: a-b⁸: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.6 cm (trimmed).
PML copy with leaf a1 (half-title page) bound at end of volume.
Binding:
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports for the Earl of Pembroke. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Elegantiolae
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: 17th/18th-century marginal notations (leaves a2r-v) and foliation in L-bracket, trimmed with rebinding, already with leaf a1 of Dati at end.
Provenance:
Thomas Herbert (1656-1733), Earl of Pembroke, shelf mark: Kq.23 (front endleaf 1 verso) and binding (with pencil inscription for spine label, leaf a2r of Dati); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, lot 80; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Tammaso De Marinis, Sept. 1919.
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