Accession number:
PML 24645
Published:
Impressum Venetiis : Per Bernardinu[m] de Choris de Cremona [et] Simone[m] de luero, impe[n]sis Andree Toresani de Asula, 13 Augusti 1491.
Description:
[4], 444 leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1927.
Notes:
Title from half-title page (leaf ¹a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf HH8v).
Printed in Choris's types 8:74G, 9:130G, and 11:79R.
Signatures: ¹a⁴; a-o⁸ p-q¹⁰ r-z⁸ A-D⁸ E-F¹⁰ G-FF⁸ GG-HH¹⁰: 448 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Marsilius Ficinus.
Printed in 2 columns; capital spaces with guide letters.
Register at colophon.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.2 x 20.5 cm., trimmed.
Binding:
17th/18th-century Italian vellum over paper boards (31 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sponged edges.
Variant Title:
At head of title: Naldus Nandius Florentinus in huius operis laudem ...
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Early-16th century marginal notations by Sardi. Modern French bibliographic notes in pencil (front fly leaf).
Provenance:
Gaspare Sardi, inscription: "Mei Gasparis Sardi ex promutatione on[?] Rx fratre Paulo Lininco freta" (leaf ¹a1r) and marginal notations; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, June 1927.
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