Accession number
PML 31717
Creator
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius.
Object title
Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii viri consularis et illustris in Somnium Scipionis expositionis quam elegantissime. Liber primus.
Published
Impressi Brixie : per Boninum de Boninis de Ragusia, M. CCCC. LXXXV. die .xv. Maii [15 May 1485].
Description
[176] leaves : diagrams, map (woodcuts) ; 313 mm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1935.
Notes
Title from caption in capitals at incipit on leaf a5 recto.
Imprints from colophon on leaf A8 recto, which reads in full: Macrobii [in capitals] Aurelii Theodosii uiri co[n]sularis & illustris saturnalior[um] libri impressi Brixie per Boninum de Boninis de Ragusia .M. CCCC. LXXXV. die .xv. Maii.
Printed in Bonini's types 3:112R and 14:111Gk.
Signatures: a⁸ b-c⁶ d⁸ e-f⁶ F⁶ g-q⁶ r⁸ s-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A⁸: 176 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut map of the world on leaf F5 recto, and diagrams.
Printed running titles and marginal notabilia.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 19.5 cm.
Imprints from colophon on leaf A8 recto, which reads in full: Macrobii [in capitals] Aurelii Theodosii uiri co[n]sularis & illustris saturnalior[um] libri impressi Brixie per Boninum de Boninis de Ragusia .M. CCCC. LXXXV. die .xv. Maii.
Printed in Bonini's types 3:112R and 14:111Gk.
Signatures: a⁸ b-c⁶ d⁸ e-f⁶ F⁶ g-q⁶ r⁸ s-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A⁸: 176 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut map of the world on leaf F5 recto, and diagrams.
Printed running titles and marginal notabilia.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 19.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled black straight-grained morocco over paper boards (30 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Bozerian. Pink silk pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
In Somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notation in text.
Provenance
Unidentified inscriptions, abraded/illegible under UV (leaf a2r); French dealer's note: collationné complee (leaf a1r) and unidentified British dealer's description, for £42 (in dept. file); Roper-Curzon family, Barons Teynham, armorial bookplate, 19th century (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gabriel Wells, 1935.
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