Facetie de Pogio Florentino.

Accession number: 
PML 60911
Author: 
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
Published: 
Impressum Venetiis : Ottinu[m] de Papia, .M.ccccc. die .xiii. November [13 November 1500].
Description: 
[42] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Trust Fund, 1970.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f4r: Impressum Venetiis Ottinu[m] de papia .M.ccccc. die .xiii. November.
Printed in Luna's type 7:107R.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ f⁴: 42 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century English calf(?), blind- and gilt-tooled in a pastiche in an early style, over paper boards (20 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Clarke & Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

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

Provenance: 
[Perhaps the copy offered by Payne & Foss, A Catalogue of Printed Books and Manuscripts (1837), no. 3737 in vellum binding]; unidentified shelf mark(?): 1567 (front pastedown); William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 2498 to Leighton for £2.16.0; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus on the Lathrop C. Harper Trust Fund, Sept. 1970.
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