Accession number
PML 541
Creator
Macer, Floridus.
Object title
De viribus herbarum carmen.
Published
[Geneva : Printer of Rolewinck, 'Fasciculus temporum' (Jean Belot?), between 1496 and 1498]; [not after 1498]; [about 1500]; [Paris]
Description
(4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
On the identity of the printer (designated by GW the Printer of the 'Fardelet du temps'), see H. Delarue in Genava 3 (1925) pp.297-307; on the chronology of the Genevan editions of Macer Floridus, see Delarue in Genava 2 (1924) pp.177-86. Lőkkös dates about 1496, CIBN not after 1498, Goff about 1500. Proctor assigned to Paris. FairMur(F) records a variant with the misprint 'cognoscere' in the penultimate line of the last page, also found in both BL copies with an additional misprint 'vire' in the first line of the poem on a2. Hillard supposes that H 10418 refers to a composite edition (HC 10418 is the Mazarine copy). Woodcuts.
In fact by Odo Magdunensis.
ISTC note: PML (-).
Checklist: "JPM 541."
In fact by Odo Magdunensis.
ISTC note: PML (-).
Checklist: "JPM 541."
Binding
18th-19th-century parchment.
Provenance
From the libraries of William Morris and Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification
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