Accession number:
PML 20459
Published:
[Rome] : [Georgius Lauer], [about 1470]
Description:
[110] leaves ; 29.5 x 20.5 cm (fol. and 4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
No colophon. Printer identified by type.
Printed in types 1:128R and 128Gk.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5-7⁸ 8-10¹⁰ 11-12⁸]: 110 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [12]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto
BMC, IBP and Sheppard record copies where some sheets are of a different setting up.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: leaves [1]/1 and [12]/8 (blank). In PML copy, quires [1, 2, 8, 12] in folio, [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10] in quarto, and [11] is mixed format.
Binding:
Modern full brown goatskin blind-stamped in a pastiche of an early style over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Epistola ad Theodorum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Illuminated initial with red scrolling vine ornament (leaf [2]/1r), with alternating red and blue initials with Italian filigree penwork decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Willfred Voynich, Feb. 1919.
Classification:
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