Accession number:
PML 79130
Published:
Venice : Andreas de Paltasichis, 1477.
Description:
[198] leaves ; 31 x 21 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): AULI GELII NOCTIUM ATTICARUM COMMENTARII LIBER PRIMUS.
Colophon (leaf z6r): AULI GELII NOCTIUM ATTICARUM COMMENTARII FINIS: IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER ANDREAM IACOBI CATHARENSEM .M.CCCC.LXXVII. ANDREA VENDRAMENO DUCE VENETIARUM INCLYTO.
Printed in types 2:112R and 19:112Gr.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-x⁸ y-z⁶; A-B⁸: 198 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.1 x 19.4 cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a5.6, and with quires A-B bound first. Leaves A1 and z6 rebacked.
Binding:
18th-century mottled calf over paper boards (31 x 21 cm.), sewn on 6 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in a humanist hand, many are bleached.
Provenance:
Charles Spencer (1675-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: C4:37 (front pastedown), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough, shelf mark: 51.c.10 (front pastedown); Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part II, 17 April 1882, lot 5419; Sotheby's, 1 Aug. 1935, to McLeish for £2 15s; Sotheby's, 11 Nov. 1935, lot 161 to Bühler for £1.1.0; Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 68; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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