Maffei Vegij landensis ad Eustathium praefatio.

Accession number: 
PML 49
Author: 
Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Knoblochtzer], [about 1480]
Description: 
[14] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from preface caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Knoblochtzer's type 2:102G.
Collation: [1⁶ 2⁸]: 14 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut of Veritas and Philalethes (leaf [1]/2r) and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 15.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/8 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century (probably English) half red calf, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (22 x 16 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkeled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in August 1896 by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), sold off the Morris duplicates (Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: o/-/- +___ (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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