Noctium Atticarum.

Accession number:

PML 16231

Author:

Gellius, Aulus.

Published:

Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 1472.

Description:

[174] leaves ; 30 x 21 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/5r): AULI GELII NOCTIUM ATTICARUM COMMENTARII LIBER PRIMUS.
Colophon (leaf [18]/7r): AULI GELII NOCTIUM ATTICARUM COMMENTARII FINIS: IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER NICOLAUM JENSON GALLICUM FELICITER .M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRUNO DUCE VENETIARUM INCLYTO.
Printed in types 1:115R and 10:115Gr.
Collation: [1-11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13-16¹⁰ 17-18⁸]: 174 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and ]18]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.3 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and ]18]/8 (blanks).

Binding:

Modern full maroon goatskin over heavy paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Deborah Evetts, 1977. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; yellow edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red initials (guide letters), with a rather sloppy white vine initial in dark pigments (leaf [2]/5r). Annotations: Contemporary manuscript notations throughout, mainly washed/rubbed out, partially visible under UV.

Provenance:

Inscription: "Johannis Cunriacii Promensis legem scholaris," visible under UV (leaf [2]/4v); Leo Olschki, Choix de livres anciens (1907), no. 2081 and another unidentified Olschki catalogue description (front fly leaf); Pierpont Moragn (1837-1913), purchased from Olschki, Sept. 1909.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books