Accession number:
PML 318
Published:
[Venice] : Nicolaus Jenson, [about 1475]
Description:
[170] leaves ; 29 x 20 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf x8r): FINIS NICOLAUS JENSON GALLICUS
Printed in types 1*:111R and 10:115Gr.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-m⁸ n⁶ o-t⁸ u¹⁰ x⁸: 170 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 19.2 cm.
Binding:
16th/17th-century laced vellum over stiff paper boards (29 x 20 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; yellow edges.
Variant Title:
Diomedis doctissimi ac diligentissimi linguae Latinae perscrutatoris de arte grammatica opus utilissimum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Northern Italian (Ferrara/Verona?) illuminated initial and border (leaf a2r), alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: A few contemporary manuscript notations (leaves k4r-6v only) and a few marks in red crayon.
Provenance:
Unidentified armorial: gold, a chevron azure (leaf a2r); unidentifed sale catalogue (Quaritch?) description, no. 685 (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: w/wl/- +___ (front pastedwon); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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