Accession number:
PML 20111
Published:
[Milan, Italy] : [Petrus de Corneno], [1482 or 1483?]
Description:
[30] leaves : diagrams (relief) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916-1917.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf a2r.
Printer from colophon, leaf e4v (in verse: "... Faustis Corneni clauditur auspitijs. ..."); place and imprint date from ISTC.
Printed in de Corneno's types 3:91G, 4:110G, and 5:55G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-d⁶ e⁴.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Facius Cardanus.
With printed diagrams in the margins. Capital spaces with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 20-20.5 cm., with deckle edges.
Binding:
19th-century quarter cloth with marbled paper sides over paper boards (30 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title:
Caption, leaf a1 verso: Reuerendissimo in Christo patri apostolicoq[ue] protonotario nec no[n] equiti aurato [et] comiti palatino Ambrosio griffo ...
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Greek inscription "TELOS" (leaf e4v).
Provenance:
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [chi lambda], purchased Nov. 1900 (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1451 to Ellis for £3.15; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1916-1917.
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