Anthologia Graeca Planudea.

Accession number:

PML 416

Uniform title:

Greek anthology.

Published:

Impressum Florentiae : per Laurentium Francisci de Alopa Venetum, .III. idus Augusti .M.CCCCLXXXXIIII [11 August 1494].

Description:

[280] leaves ; 23 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [LL]8v: Impressvm Florentiae per Lavrentivm Francisci de Alopa Venetvm .III. idvs Avgvsti .M.CCCCLXXXXIIII.
Printed in Alopa's types 2:90R, 4:83G, and 5*:114Gr.
Signatures: A-[Omega]⁸ AA-KK⁸; [LL]⁸: 280 leaves.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Edited by Janus Lascaris.
Dedicatory letter from Lascaris to Piero de' Medici, leaves [LL]1-8v.
Variants are known with titles and capitals masked during printing for adding by hand in presentation copies (CIBN A-410).
The last quire (dedicatory letter and colophon) is not found in all copies, probably because the flight and proscription of Piero de' Medici shortly after the publication of the book caused the dedication to be suppressed (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 22 x 16 cm.
PML copy with quire [LL] added from another copy (leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 15 cm), remargined.

Binding:

Early 17th-century gilt-tooled citron morocco, stenciled with a colored floral motif, over paper boards (23 x 17 cm), sewn on 4 supports, with arms of de Thou and his second wife, Gasparde de la Chastre (m. in 1601). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

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

Provenance:

Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), armorial binding (with his arms and his second wife, Gasparde de la Chastre, married in 1601); Antonin Claude Dominique Just de Noailles (1777-1846), his sale: Evans, 12 May 1825, lot 136, to Payne for £12.0.0; Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), sold when he purchased the vellum copy (see Drury notes); Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841), bibliographic note and shelfmark: C.260.1 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale: Evans, 19 Feb. 1827, lot 160 for £18.18.0 to Payne; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from Payne & Foss, entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books