Xenophontis opera in hoc uolumina impressa.

Accession number: 
PML 20944
Author: 
Xenophon, author.
Description: 
[98] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes: 

Title from caption to contents, leaf A1r.
Imprint and date as given by ISTC, noting: "On the ascription to Milan and the identity of the printer, see D. E. Rhodes in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1981, pp.152-53. BMC and BSB-Ink assigned to Le Signerre. Polain and Proctor give Reggio Emilia as the place of printing with Polain assigning to Franciscus de Mazalibus. Goff X3 is referred to Brunet V col 1497, which is doubtless this edition, assigned there to B. de Vitalibus. Goff's location for X3 (WillCL: not found 1994) is presumably a misreading taken over from Stillwell of the WellCL copy in the First Census, with reference again to Brunet." Cf. British Museum catalogue: "Catalogued by Proctor as the work of F. de Mazalibus at Reggio Emilia (no. 7255). It may possibly belong to the sixteenth century." D.E. Rhodes's article was reprinted in his Further studies in Italian and Spanish bibliography (London, 1991), pages 7-9.
Checklist has pub. date: "[1500]."
Printed in type 110R.
Collation: folio: A-D⁶ E⁴, a-l⁶ m⁴: 98 leaves, leaf m4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
43 lines and headline, 238 (243) x 145 mm. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 20 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (28.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports for the Earl of Pembroke. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Opera

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Thomas Herbert (1656-1733), Earl of Pembroke, binding and shelfmark: Kc.11. (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, lot 211, to Quaritch (with collation note on rear fly leaf by Pruitt dated 2/7/14); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, Feb. 1920.
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