Accession number:
PML 51238.2
Published:
Venetiis : [Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis], .M.CCCC.LXXXXVIII. die .x. Marci [10 March 1498].
Description:
[46] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1960.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f6r: Venetiis anno Domini .M.CCCC.LXXXXVIII. die .x. Marci.
Printed in Rubeus's types 3:80R and 7:135G.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f⁶: 46 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.1 x 15.6 cm.
Binding:
15th/early 16th-century longstitch sewing, on 2 supports, with vellum envelope wrapper. Vellum front endleaf.
Variant Title:
Polyhistor, sive De mirabilibus mundi
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary (Italian?) rubrication, red and blue initials, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; same throughout volume. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
15th-century ownership inscription, abraded (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E. Ph. Goldschmidt, Nov. 1960.
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