[Opera].

Accession number:

PML 20489

Author:

Priscian, active approximately 500-530.

Published:

Venice : [Jacobus de Fivizzano, Lunensis], for Marcus de Comitibus and Gerardus Alexandrinus, 1476.

Description:

[314] leaves ; 29 x 21 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Collation: a-n¹⁰ o-y aa-ii⁸ kk-oo¹⁰ pp-qq⁸ rr¹⁰: 314 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Edited by Benedictus Brognolus.
First colophon (leaf nn5v): Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML Checklist enters this item under Jacobus de Fivizano, Lunensis for Marcus de Comitibus and Gerardus Alexandrinus as printers and publishers.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.6 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Printed in type 1:105R, with a Greek type of the same size.
Second colophon (leaf rr10r): Impressum Venetiis impensis Marci de Comitibus sociiq[ue] eius Girardi Alexandrini. Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI.
Title from ISTC.

Binding:

Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Deborah Evetts, 1978. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in at least two different hands, mostly washed/faded. Fore-edge manuscript title.

Provenance:

Fiesole (Tuscany), Observant Franciscans, inscription and shelf mark: "Del convento di S. Fran[cis]co de Fiesole. P. 11," 16th/17th century (leaf a2r); unidentified shelf marks(?, Fiesole?): 9ni 43 f 346 (leaf rr10v) and H 44 (top edge); unidentified ownership label: dog's head with bone in mouth (front fly leaf verso -- Bod-inc suggests the dell'Osso family of Ravenna); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [phi epsilon], purchased July 1899 (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3626; Giuseppe Martini, unidentified catalogue, no. 171; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Martini, April 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books