Accession number:
PML 242
Published:
Rome : In domo Petri de Maximis [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 11 April 1469.
Description:
[202] leaves ; 31.5 x 21.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [21]/5r): Anno Christi. M.CCCC.lxix. Paulo regnante .ii. Anno eius .v. die vero .xi. mensis Aprilis. In domo Petri de Maximis.
Printed in types 2:115R and 3:116Gr.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-6¹⁰ 7¹² 8-18¹⁰ 19⁸; 20¹⁰ 21⁶]: 202 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [20]/1, [21]/6 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.7 cm.
PML copy with contents, quires [20-21], bound after quire [1].
Binding:
19th-century French gilt-tooled green goatskin over paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Bozérian le Jeune.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue interlocking initial with red and blue filigree penwork (leaf [2]/1r), red lombards, rubrics, foliation, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: A few early marginal notations.
Provenance:
Payne & Foss, 1828 (second front fly leaf recto); John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 208; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 227, 29/5/96 and price code: dm/-/- +com (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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