Faceciarum liber.

Accession number: 
PML 20625
Author: 
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
Published: 
[Nuremberg] : Friedrich Creussner, 1475.
Description: 
[68] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Poggy florentini Oratoris eloquentissimi ac secretary apostolici. faceciarum liber incipit feliciter.
Colophon (leaf [8]/8v): Hoc opus exiguu[m] sculpsit Fridericus Creüsner sua fabrili arte. Anno ab incarnat[i]one .M.cccc. Septuagesimoq[ui]nto.
Printed in Creussner's type 1:110G.
Collation: [1⁶; 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6¹⁰ 7-8⁸]: 68 leaves, plus a final blank; leaf [8]/8 is a cancel.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.7 cm.
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.

Binding: 
Modern quarter maroon goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, some guide letters; illuminated initial (leaf [2]/1r); paragraph mark and capital strokes, leaf [1]/2r only. Annotations: No notations in text. Bleached inscription, illegible under UV (leaf [2]/1r).

Provenance: 
Richard Heber (1773-1833), Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp (leaf [1]/1r); Heber sale, Sotheby & Son, Part I, 10 April 1834, no. 5596; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 351 to Quaritch (with a collation note, rear fly leaf) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books