Accession number
PML 20718
Creator
Claudianus, Claudius.
Object title
Opera.
Published
Vicentiae : impressit Iacobus Dusensis, Milesimo quadrigentesimo octogesimo secu[n]do sex Cal. Iun. [27 May 1482].
Description
[204] pages ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l6v: Finis operum CL. Claudiani quae no[n] minus eleganter q[uam] diligenter impressit Iacobus Dusensis Milesimo quadrigentesimo octogesimo secu[n]do sex Cal. Iun. Vicentiae.
Printed in Dusa's type 1:103R.
Signatures: A-B⁸; a-k⁸ l⁶: 102 leaves, leaf A1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 43 lines. Capital spaces with guide letters. Register.
Edited by Barnaba Celsano.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20 cm., trimmed.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l6v: Finis operum CL. Claudiani quae no[n] minus eleganter q[uam] diligenter impressit Iacobus Dusensis Milesimo quadrigentesimo octogesimo secu[n]do sex Cal. Iun. Vicentiae.
Printed in Dusa's type 1:103R.
Signatures: A-B⁸; a-k⁸ l⁶: 102 leaves, leaf A1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 43 lines. Capital spaces with guide letters. Register.
Edited by Barnaba Celsano.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20 cm., trimmed.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (29.5 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: Contemporary marginal notations in several hands, on first few leaves only. Notation on a5v dated 1554.
Provenance
Thomas Herbert (1656-1733), Earl of Pembroke, shelf mark: Kd. 7. (front fly leaf verso) and binding; his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, lot 69; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Maggs Bros., 1919.
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