Accession number:
PML 125452
Published:
[Venice] : Adam de Ambergau, 1472.
Description:
[298] leaves ; 30.5 x 21.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Gift of the Berle Estate, 1994.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [30]/9v): Hoc ingens Ciceronis opus: causasq[ue] forenses / Quas inter patres dixit & in populo / Tu quicunq[ue] leges. Ambergau natus ahenis / Impressit formis. Ecce magister Adam. / .M.CCCC.LXXII.
Collation: [1¹² 2-26¹⁰ 27-28⁸ 29-30¹⁰]: 298 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [30]/10 blank. Variant collation in GW.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Ludovicus Carbo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 20.7 cm.
Printed in type 2:116R.
Binding:
18th century French gilt-tooled red goatskin over heavy paper boards (30.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports attributed to Duseuil, with the arms of Count Hoym. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, German red lombards and headlines on leaves with lombards, red underlining and capital strokes on first few leaves only. Annotations: Some contemporary marginal notations, washed/faded. Contemporary tabula, with initials "MTC" at top (leaf [30]/10r).
Provenance:
Danielis Pyrunsius, signature visible under UV (leaf [1]/2r); Count Karl Heinrich Hoym (1694-1736), binding; Hoym sale, Paris, 1 April 1738, lot 1529, for 84 livre; [cited by Bishop catalogue: Jean-Joseph Rive (1730-1791), bibliographic notes (front fly leaf verso), but not in his sale, 6 March 1792, library purchased by Chauffard and Colomby of Marseille]; George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797-1833), armorial book label (front pastedown); Robert Hoe (1839-1909), book label (front fly leaf); his sale, Anderson Auction Company, part II, 8 Jan. 1912, lot 791 to Drake for $325; Cortlandt F. Bishop (1870-1935), book label (front fly leaf); his sale, Anderson Auction Gallery, 5 April 1938, lot 432 for $450; Dr. Beatrice Bishop Berle (1902-1993); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the Berle Estate, 1994.
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