Francisci Philelfi satyrarum hecatostichon prima[-decima] decas.

Accession number: 
PML 16834
Author: 
Filelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481, author.
Published: 
Impressae Mediolani : Per Christophorum Valdarpher Ratisponensem, anno a natali Christiano millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo sexto, Idibus Nouembribus [13 November 1476]
Description: 
[150] leaves ; 29 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes: 

Caption title (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [19]/5r): Impressae Mediolani Galeacio Maria Sphortia inuictissimo duce quinto florente : Per Christophorum Valdarpher Ratisponensem huius eximiae artis imprimendi consumatissimum magistrium, anno a natali Christiano millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo sexto, Idibus Nouembribus.
Explicit (leaf [19]/4v): Franciscus Philelfus huic saytrarum [sic] operi extremam manum Mediolani imposuit, die Martis kal. Decembribus anno a natali Christiano MCCCCXLVIIII.
Printed in Valdarfer's type 4:107R.
Collation: [1-18⁸ 19⁶]: 150 leaves, leaf [19]/6 blank).
Paper format: Royal quarto
Roman type; 35 lines per page; initial spaces occupying 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 or 8 lines, most with guide letters; initial letter of each verse set out.
"Calliphilus Bernardinus Robiatinus in Francisci Philelphi poetae praeceptoris sui Satyras," 7 elegiac couplets (leaf [19]/5r).
Register on leaf [19]/5v.
PML copy listed under Second Press in Checklist.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.8 cm., trimmed.

Binding: 
18th-century gilt-tooled brown calf over paper boards (29 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports possibly by Roger Payne. Plain brown paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Satyrarum hecatostichon prima[-decima] decas

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notes in text.

Provenance: 
William Beckford (1760-1844), his library descended to his daughter Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852) 10th Duke of Hamilton; Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part 3, 2 July 1883, lot 696 to Nattali & Bond for £4.10.0; unidentified English sale catalogue description, lot 3989 for £20; several unidentified pencil price codes, 18th/19th century (front and rear fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1910.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books