Accession number:
PML 198238
Uniform title:
Battle of the frogs and mice. Italian.
Published:
[Venice] : [Nicolaus Jenson?], [approximately 1475]
Description:
[10] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball and Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Funds, 2019.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Subscribed "Verone die xv. Ianuarii. M. CCCC. LXX," which has often been taken as the date and place of printing; but the edition "is Venetian work, executed with the later [1475 and onwards] state of Jenson's roman either by Jenson himself or by some small firm using his type" (BMC VII p. xlix n.2).
Printed in Jenson's type 1:115R.
Collation: [1¹⁰]: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
25 lines. Capital space.
Translated into Italian by Giorgio Sommariva of Verona.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.3 cm
Binding:
Modern Italian green morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Sozzi of Modena. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant Title:
Batrachomyomachia
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (one initial, leaf [1]/2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi (1867-1942), of Padua (see Guicciardini, 333); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books on the Elisabeth Ball and Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Funds, March 2019.
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