Accession number:
PML 78285
Published:
[Milan] : [Bonus Accursius], [about 1480].
Description:
[46] leaves ; 29 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1984.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [alpha]1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Accursius's type 2:119Gk.
Signatures: [alpha]-[zeta]⁸ ([alpha]1, [zeta]8 blank).
Paper format: Royal quarto.
Includes eighteen Idylls of Theocritus along with the Works and days of Hesiod.
"Hesiodou toū askraiou erga kai emerai" on p. [65]-[93].
Caption title printed in red.
Initial spaces, with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with linen sides, by Deborah Evetts, 1983.
Variant Title:
Eidyllion
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified armorial bookplate: crowned sheild with imperial eagle and a harrow, held up by two putti holding a branch; Christie's (London), 13 Dec. 1984, lot 107; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Christie's via L.C. Harper, Dec. 1984.
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