Accession number:
PML 28288
Published:
A Triviso : [Michele Manzolo], A di .10. Dece[m]b[rum]. 1478.
Description:
62 unnumbered leaves : typographic diagrams ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1931.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
City and date from colophon, leaf [8]/8r.
Printed in Manzolo's type 1:82G, mixed with 1*86G.
ISTC assigns printing to Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, see BMC VI 883.
Collation: [1-6⁸ 7⁶ 8⁸]: 62 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 14.0 cm.
Binding:
18th-century(? Austrian?) half alum-tawed pigskin, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports.
Variant Title:
Arte dell' abbaco
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary/16th-century Italian marginal notations and calculations, moderately throughout text.
Provenance:
Steinaweg (Austria), Göttweig Abbey, Benedictines, deaccessioned likely in the 1920s (ex-info Agostino Conto, see email in dept. file); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Emil Hirsch, May 1931.
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