Accession number
PML 20576
Creator
Aesop.
Object title
Aesopus moralisatus (Cum commento: Graecia disciplinarum ...).
Published
[Cologne] : [Johann Guldenschaff], [about 1481]
Description
[64] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
Dated by CIBN from the presence of signatures and the layout (later than Guldenschaff's edition of about 1480, GW 400). GW and Goff date about 1480.
Signatures: a-h⁸: 64 leaves, leaf h8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Metrical version of Fabulae Lib. I-IV by Anonymous Neveleti (Gualtherus Anglicus?).
Captial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
Dated by CIBN from the presence of signatures and the layout (later than Guldenschaff's edition of about 1480, GW 400). GW and Goff date about 1480.
Signatures: a-h⁸: 64 leaves, leaf h8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Metrical version of Fabulae Lib. I-IV by Anonymous Neveleti (Gualtherus Anglicus?).
Captial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century English full brown goatskin (style similar to Francis Bedford) over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endband; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, red initials, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Contemporary marginal and interlinear notations throughout, in a German hand, including citations from Horace (leaf h8v).
Provenance
Unidentified rectangular (17x60mm) stamp, abraded (leaf a1r); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 1 purchased by Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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