Accession number
PML 127662
Creator
Apuleius.
Object title
Co[m]mentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinum Aureum Lucii Apuleii. : Mox in reliqua Opuscula eiusdem Annotationes imprimentur.
Published
Impressum ... Bononiae : a Benedicto Hectoris i[m]pressore solertissimo - Adhibita su[m]ma diligentia - ut in manus hominu[m] ueniret q[uam] emendatissimum, anno salutis Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo Cal. Augusti. [1 August 1500]
Description
[16], [4], 282 leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of Frances S. Reese, 1994.
Notes
Commentary by Philippus Beroaldus surrounding and typographically distinguished from the main text.
Imprint from colophon on leaf XX4 verso, which reads in full: Impressum hoc opus Bononiae a Benedicto Hectoris i[m]pressore solertissimo - Adhibita su[m]ma diligentia - ut in manus hominu[m] ueniret q[uam] emendatissimum. Anno salutis Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo Cal. Augusti. Inclyto Io. Bentiuolo secundo status huiusce Bononiensis Florentissimi habenas fœliciter Modera[n]te.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21.2 cm.
Printed in Hectoris's types 6:112R, 10:170G, and 11:88R.
Printed running titles, marginal notabilia and foliation.
Signatures: a⁴; A-Z⁶ &⁶ [Con]⁶ [Rum]⁶ AA-XX⁶: 286 leaves. Leaf a1 unsigned. Some copies with printed Tabula: ²A-²B⁶ ²C⁴.
Some copies have a sixteen-leaf "Tabula vocabulorum et historiarum", printed later than the body of the book: see BM 15th cent., VI, 846.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
Title from title page on leaf a1 recto.
Woodcut printer's device B on leaf XX6 recto. For Benedictus Hectoris's device B, see BM 15th cent., VI, 840.
Imprint from colophon on leaf XX4 verso, which reads in full: Impressum hoc opus Bononiae a Benedicto Hectoris i[m]pressore solertissimo - Adhibita su[m]ma diligentia - ut in manus hominu[m] ueniret q[uam] emendatissimum. Anno salutis Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo Cal. Augusti. Inclyto Io. Bentiuolo secundo status huiusce Bononiensis Florentissimi habenas fœliciter Modera[n]te.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21.2 cm.
Printed in Hectoris's types 6:112R, 10:170G, and 11:88R.
Printed running titles, marginal notabilia and foliation.
Signatures: a⁴; A-Z⁶ &⁶ [Con]⁶ [Rum]⁶ AA-XX⁶: 286 leaves. Leaf a1 unsigned. Some copies with printed Tabula: ²A-²B⁶ ²C⁴.
Some copies have a sixteen-leaf "Tabula vocabulorum et historiarum", printed later than the body of the book: see BM 15th cent., VI, 846.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
Title from title page on leaf a1 recto.
Woodcut printer's device B on leaf XX6 recto. For Benedictus Hectoris's device B, see BM 15th cent., VI, 840.
Binding
Bound on three supports without boards, with early sewing and endband structure intact. Plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout, 14-leaf quire bound at front with manuscript tabula ("Tabula vocabularum elegantiorum Phi. Bero. in Apu. editorum li. i," leaves [1]/1v-4r) and excerpt from Augustine, De civitate dei, book XVIII, chapter xvii (leaf [1]/5r), and 8-leaf quire at end with index, "Proverbiorum tabula. Et locorum dilucindatorum. et quae scita sunt" (leaves [YY]1r-4v). All additional manuscript leaves have ".yhs." at top. The manuscript tabula is not the same as the printed version found with some copies.
Provenance
Baltassar of Thuringia (or Turin?), inscription: "Est dominus libri Thuring' prole Creatus / Baltassar lector pellege r[??]lde vale," (leaf [1]/1r), manuscript tabulae and marginal notations throughout in humanist hand, dated 1503 (leaf [1]/1v); unidentified shelf mark, in pencil: V.22.B10 (leaf [1]/1r); Dr. John R. Oliver, inherited by Frances S. Reese (Oliver's niece); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Frances S. Reese, Sept. 1994.
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