[Opera].

Accession number:

PML 38802

Author:

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus.

Published:

Venice : [Printer of Ausonius], 7 December 1472.

Description:

[106] leaves ; 29 x 21 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1946.

Notes:

Collation: [1⁶; 2-7⁸; 8¹²; 9⁸; 10-11⁸; 12-13⁸]: 106 leaves, leaves [2]/1, [7]/8, [8]/1, and [9]/8 blank. Variant collation in GW.
Edited by Bartholomaeus Girardinus.
First colophon (leaf [1]/1v): B.G. A NATIVITATE CHRISTI DUCENTESIMAE NONAGESIMAE QUINTAE OLYMPIADIS ANNO .II. VII. IDUS DECEMBRES. VENETIIS.
For variants and correct transcriptions see CIBN.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 19.8 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/1 (blank), and with quire [1] bound at end.
Printed in types 1:115R, 2:115R, and 4:115Gr.
Second colophon (leaf [11]/8r): TITI CALPHURNII POETAE SICULI BUCOLICUM CARMEN FINIT. ANNO INCAR. DOMINICE .M.ccccLXXII.
Title from ISTC.

Binding:

18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports, for the Earl of Pembroke. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Two early marginal notations, one identifying the printing date at 1472. Contemporary foliation.

Provenance:

Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733), shelf marks: Kd3 (front fly leaf verso); Pembroke sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, lot 21 to Quaritch for £43; Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by F.S. Ferguson, 3 July 1914 (rear fly leaf recto); Charles S. Ascherson (d. 1945), bookplate (front pastedown) and shelf mark: 2 H 16 (front fly leaf verso), entire library purchased by Quaritch; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Quaritch, Sept. 1946.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books