Accession number:
PML 75111
Published:
[Florence] : [Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus], [approximately 1481]
Description:
[60] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to & 8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1976.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. Date from GW and PML Checklist (following George Painter, "Chatsworth Books in the British Museum, Pt 1," The Book Collector (Winter, 1958)).
Printed in Laurentii's type 4:114R (identified in BMC as 115Rb).
Signatures: a-g⁸ h⁴: 60 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets (quires e-h) and Royal octavo, in quarter-sheets (quires a-d).
Goff identified the format as folio.
Translated by Alessandro Braccio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13 cm.
Binding:
19th-century quarter red calf, with cloth sides over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant Title:
Historia didue amanti
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
[Giuseppe Martini, see Catalogo della libreria di Giuseppe Martini, no. 288? but in different binding;] Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Martin Breslauer (bibliographic notes on front endleaf 1 recto), Oct. 1976.
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