David prophētou kai basileōs mélos / David prophetae et regis melos.

Accession number: 
PML 39414
Uniform title: 
Bible. Psalms. Greek. 1481.
Published: 
Impressum Mediolani : [Bonus Accursius], Anno Mcccc. Lxxxi die .xx. Septembris [20 September 1481].
Description: 
[182] leaves ; 28 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1947.
Notes: 

Title from caption [in capitals] on leaf a1 recto, partly transliterated from the Greek.
Imprints from colophon on leaf z6 recto, which reads in full: Impressum Mediolani Anno Mcccc. Lxxxi die .xx. Septembris.
Printed in Accursius's types 1:119R, 2:119Gk, and 4:100R.
Edited by Giovanni Crastoni.
Signatures: [1²]; a-x⁸ y-z⁶: 182 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto.
Text in 2 columns, with Greek and Latin texts side by side, except in 1 column of Latin on leaves [1]/1v-2v.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 20.2 cm., trimmed.

Binding: 
19th-century full brown goatskin, blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (28 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Clarke & Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Psaltērion

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Gold initial Mu on red ground with blue frame (leaf a1r), with red (Greek) and blue (Latin) initials throughout remainder of text. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Verona, Capuchins, armorial stamp with inscription: "Loci Cappuccinorum Veronae" (leaf a1r); Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, part 6, Sotheby's, 11 July 1917, lot 6012; Cortlandt F. Bishop (1870-1935), book label (front fly leaf); his sale, Anderson Auction Gallery, part 2, 25 April 1938, lot 1820 to L.C. Harper for $240; A.S.W. Rosenbach, "March of the Books" (Dec. 1944), no. 412; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, Oct. 1947.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Retrospective bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books