Accession number:
PML 20711.4
Published:
Venetijs : p[er] Bonetu[m] Locatellu[m] iussu [et] expensis ... Octaviani Scoti ..., Anno salutis 1496 Nonis sextilibus [5 August 1496]
Description:
51, [1] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes:
Title from title page (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf h7r): Impressu[m] est hoc op[us] Venetiis p[er] Bonetu[m] Locatellu[m] iussu [et] expensis nobilis viri d[omi]ni Octaviani Scoti civis Modoetiensis. Anno salutis .1496. Nonis sextilibus. Augustino Barbadico Serenissimo Venetia[rum] Duce.
Printed in types 1:74G, 2:130G, 4:92G, and 9:180G.
Collation: a⁸ b-g⁶ h⁸: 52 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcut initials.
Scotus's mark, leaf h8r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.1 x 20.3 cm.
Binding:
16th-century blind-rolled and -tooled brown calf over wooden boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Garrett Godfrey, Cambridge. Plain paper pastedowns and (modern) fly leaves. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout. Fore-edge inscription: "II."
Provenance:
Thomas Ashley, signature, early 16th century (leaf h8v of Tiene); George Brothers, signatures, early 16th century (leaf h8v of Tiene); purchase inscription: "Iste liber constat mr̄ā [???]," abraded (leaf h8v of Tiene); William Dussyng, inscription, early 16th: "Liber W. Dussyng" (a1r of Duns Scotus); Thomas Har, signature, 16th/17th century (leaf B8v of Duns Scotus); Nicholas Wheeler, donation inscription, 30 Oct. 1601: "Ex dono Nicholai Wheeler Gen. Tertio Caldendas Novembris Anno 1601" (top board label); Ellis, cat. 142 (1912) , no. 28; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Ellis, Sept. 1919.
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