Accession number:
PML 19618
Published:
[Venice] : [Vindelinus de Spira], 1472.
Description:
[288] leaves ; 33 x 23.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1913.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Date from explicit (leaf [28]/1v): Volumen prisciani de octo partibus orationis: de constructione: de duodecim carminibus: de accentibus: de numeris & po[n]deribus & me[n]suris Explicitum est. Anno Domini. M.CCCC.LXXII.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5-7⁸ 8-10¹⁰ 11-12¹² 13¹⁰ 14-15⁸; 16-21¹⁰ 22-23⁸; 24-25⁸ 26⁴ 27-28¹⁰; 29⁸; 30-31¹⁰]: 288 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [23]/8, and [29]/8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Benedictus Brognolus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.1 x 22.2 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding:
17th/18th-century vellum over stiff paper boards (33 x 23.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Extensive contemporary marginal notations by Vicentius throughout first-third of text.
Provenance:
Vicentius, inscription: "Huius p[ri]siani ego p[res]b[i[t]er vicentius p[ro]viden atq[ue] patronus posessor sum et amico[rum]," and marginal notes, 15th/16th century (leaf [1]/2r); Aegedius [??]chett, signature, 16th/17th century (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified ownership label: dog's head with bone in mouth (front fly leaf verso -- Bod-inc suggests the dell'Osso family of Ravenna); H.C. Hoskier, purchased from Jacque Rosenthal (Munich), Oct. 1902; his sale, Sotheby's, 29 June 1908, lot 32; unidentified sale catalogue description (Martini?), no. 97 in $US (rear fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1913.
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