Accession number:
PML 388
Published:
Mediolani : impressum p[er] ... Leonardum pachel Uldericu[m] scinczenceller, Anno domini .M.cccc.Lxxxi. xiiii. Kale[n]das novembres [19 October 1481].
Description:
[80] leaves; 20 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r: Pogii Florentini oratoris clarissimi. Facetiarum liber incipit.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [10]/8r: Mediolani summa cum dilige[n]tia Impressum p[er] huius opificis prudentes exactores Leonardum pachel Uldericu[m] scinczenceller socios ac theutgonichos. Anno domini .M.cccc.Lxxxi. xiiii. Kale[n]das novembres.
Printed in Pachel and Scinzenzeler's type 6:98R.
Collation: [1-10⁸]: 80 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Captial spaces, with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13 cm.
Binding:
19th-century French blind- and gilt-tooled maroon straight-grained morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Simier. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Title in ISTC: Facetiae
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, except red lombards and paragraph marks, leaves [1]/1v-5r only. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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