Accession number:
PML 1555
Published:
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi Romani, mense Iulio MIID [July 1498]
Description:
[452] leaves ; 33 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes:
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf kk8v).
Printed in Aldus's types 2:114R and 7:114Gk.
Signatures: a-p⁸ q-r¹⁰ s-t⁸ A-I⁸ K⁴; L-P⁸ Q-R¹⁰ S⁸ T¹⁰ V⁶ X-Y¹⁰ Z⁸ &¹⁰; aa¹⁰ iteru[m] aa⁸ iteru[m] bb⁸ bb-hh⁸ ii⁶ kk¹⁰: 452 leaves, leaf K4 blank.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
Edited by Alexander Sartius.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Register: leaves kk9-kk10.
Neveu reports variants on the title (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.4 x 20.9 cm.
PML copy missing 10 leaves: quire aa.
Binding:
18th-century French red morocco over paper boards (33 x 22 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Derome. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoeration: Rubrication unrealized. Text of half-title page and incipit (leaf a3r) written over in gold. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Justin de Mac-Carthy-Reagh (1744-1811), his sale, De Bure (Paris), 27 Jan. 1817 lot 3707 for 80 francs; unidentified inscription: "Bib. Inol. 4046" and price code: n/n/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841), bibliographic note and shelfmark: C.221.B (front endleaf 1 recto), not in his sale: Evans (London), 19 Feb. 1827; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and shelf mark: A5 (front endleaf 1 verso), purchased from Payne & Foss for £8.8.0, 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 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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