Incomincia il prolago sopra la Historia di Troia / co[m]posita per Guido Giudice di Cholo[n]na di Messi[n]a.

Accession number:

PML 328

Author:

Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.

Published:

Nella Inchlita citta di Venexia : Impressa per Antonio de Allexandria della Paglia, Zuane Saluazo, Bartholomeo da Fossombrono dela Marcha & Marchesino di Sauioni Milanese, negli anni della incarnatione 1481.

Description:

[108] leaves ; 28 cm

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf a[2]r): Incomincia il prolago sopra la historia di troia. Co[m]posita per guido giudice di cholo[n]na di messia.
Colophon, variant (leaf o5r): Questa presente opera: e stata impressa per Antonio de Allexandria della paglia. & Zuane Saluazo: & Bartholomeo da Fossombrono dela Marcha. & Marchesino di Savioni Milanese. nella inchlita citta di Venexia: negli a[n]ni della incarnatione. .M.CCCC.LXXXI.
Printed in type 1:90R.
Collation: a-g⁸ h⁶ i-n⁸ o⁶: 108 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a, a3 signed a2, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Filippo Ceffi.
Capital spaces with guide letters; in double columns.
Variant colophon known, cf HC(Add) 5523; Morg(B) 328 (Goff).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.9 x 19 cm.

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled French red goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duru, 1886. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Historia di Troia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Francesco Dedo [??], pen trials/inscription: "Francesco dedo [???] prova[?] una pena di occha" (leaf d6r); unidentified (Sotheby's?) sale catalogue description, no. 144 (front fly leaf verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf) and bibliographical notes: No. 237, 27/11/96 and price code: l/wm/- +comm (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books