Laurentii Vallensis Patricii romani co[m]mentarior[um] gra[m]maticorum secundu[m] elegantiam linguȩ latinȩ : liber primus de nomine verboq[ue] et ex his duob[us] co[m]posito p[ar]ticipio i[n]cipit · prœmium.

Accession number:

PML 20703

Author:

Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457.

Published:

Brixiȩ opus feliciter impressum est : Per me Eustacium gallum, Decimo kalendas Aprilis. .M.CCCC.LXXV [23 March 1475].

Description:

[188] leaves ; 307 mm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

1 column, of 36 lines. Initial spaces, without printed guide letters.
A close reprint of Jenson's edition, Venice 1471 (ISTC iv00051000).
Imprint from colophon on leaf y10 verso, which reads in full: Laurentii [in capitals] Vallensis de linguȩ latinȩ elegantia: Ed de Ego: Mei: Tui & Tui: Ad Ioannem Tortellium Aretinum: Per me Eustacium gallum Brixiȩ opus feliciter impressum est. Decimo kalendas Aprilis. .M.CCCC.LXXV.
Index in two columns on leaves [z]1r-[z]8v.
Paper format: Chancer folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy with quire [z] bound first.
Printed in Statius's type 1:115R.
Signatures: a-u⁸ x-y¹⁰ [z⁸]. Signatures individually stamped far down in the lower right corner of leaves.
Spaces left blank Greek words.
Title from caption, with the name of the author in capitals, at incipit on leaf a3 recto.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin, with cloth sides, over boards (31.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.

Variant Title:

PML Checklist variant title from colophon : De ego mei tui sui

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in a humanist hand sporadically throughout. English bibliographic notes, 18th/19th century (leaf [z]1r).

Provenance:

Marcus Antonius Passo, inscription: "Marci Antonii Passi ae fratrum codex," 15th century (front fly leaf recto); Francesco Orazio Beggi (active 1848-1864), monogram bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelf mark: 12.G (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 9 May 1898, lot 3801 to J. & J. Leighton for £2.10.0; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and notes, purchased Aug. 1898 (front endleaf 2 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3869; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Ellis, Sept. 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Century:

20th century

Department:

Printed Books