Accession number:
PML 79135
Published:
[Rome] : [Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck], [approximately 1478]
Description:
[46] leaves ; 21.5 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
GW dates to about 1480.
Printed in Guldinbeck's types 2:97G and 3:110G.
Collation: [1-5⁸ 6⁶]: 46 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 column, 30 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.2 cm.
PML copy missing 8 leaves: [1]/1.8 and [6]/1-6.
Binding:
Modern quarter blue goatskin, with blue cloth sides, over paper boards (22 x 15 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by MacDonald for Bühler, Oct. 1954. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title:
Fiore di virtù
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary (Italian?) rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: 16th/17th-century manuscript notations sporadically throughout, including manicules and NB marks.
Provenance:
Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 73, purchased (unbound) from Libreria gia Nardecchia (Rome), June 1951; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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