Heptaplus Iohannis Pici Mirandule de septiformi sex dierum Geneseos enarratione ad Laurentium Medicem.

Accession number:

PML 406

Author:

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.

Published:

[Florence] : [Bartolommeo di Libri], [not after 24 November 1489]

Description:

[58] leaves ; 28.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from caption (leaf a2r).
Printed identified based on type.
In a letter of 24 Nov. 1489, Bartolommeo Fonzio thanks the editor Salviati for sending him a copy; cf. Bartholomaei Fontii Epistolarum Libri, ed. A. Daneloni (Messina, 2008) ep. II.14 (p. 86) (M.C. Davies).
Printed in Libri's type 2:115R.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g¹⁰: 58 leaves, leaf g10 blank.
Edited by Robertus Salviatus.
Salviatus dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici in preface (leaf a1v).
Blind bearer type visible (leaves a1 and g9).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.9 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: g10 (blank).

Binding:

19th-century half parchment, with paper sides.

Variant Title:

Heptaplus de septiformi sex dierum Geneseos enarratione

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (leaf a2r), otherwise not required. Annotations: No marginal notes in text, early manuscript foliation.

Provenance:

Unidentified shelf mark: .8. (bottom edge); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), price code: w/wm/- +___ (front pastedown, erased); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Paste papers (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books