Accession number
PML 45446
Creator
Masuccio Salernitano, -1476.
Object title
Massucii Salernitani de qui[n]quaginta argume[n]tis moralibus ad illustrissima[m] Hyppolitam.
Published
Impressum Mediolani : per Cristophorum Valdarfer Ratisponensem, a[n]no dominice poassionis .M.cccclxxxiii. die .xxviii. May [28 May 1483].
Description
[118] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1954.
Notes
Title from incipit to Prohemium (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf p7v): Qui finisce il Novellino con le .L. Argomenti [et] morali conclusio[n]i dalcuni exempli per Masucio guardato nobele salernitano facto [et] i[n]titulato alla Illustrissima Ipolita d[e] Calabria Duchessa. Impressu[m] Mediolani per Cristophorum Valdarfer Ratisponensem eme[n]datum [et] correctum cum magna diligentia a[n]no dominice poassionis .M.cccclxxxiii. die .xxviii. May regnante excelentissimo ligurum principe Domino .D. Joa[n]ne Galea[m] Duce Mediolani.
Printed in Valdarfer's types 5:90/91G and 6:180G.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-h⁸ i⁶ k⁸ l-m⁶ n-p⁸: 118 leaves, leaves [1]/4 and a[1] blank. Leaf a[2] signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
With prefatory letter by Francesco de Tuppo (leaf a[1]v).
Dedicated to Ippolita Maria Sforza, duchess of Calabria.
Initial spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/4 and a[1] (blanks), and with [1]/1 bound after [1]/3.
Imprint from colophon (leaf p7v): Qui finisce il Novellino con le .L. Argomenti [et] morali conclusio[n]i dalcuni exempli per Masucio guardato nobele salernitano facto [et] i[n]titulato alla Illustrissima Ipolita d[e] Calabria Duchessa. Impressu[m] Mediolani per Cristophorum Valdarfer Ratisponensem eme[n]datum [et] correctum cum magna diligentia a[n]no dominice poassionis .M.cccclxxxiii. die .xxviii. May regnante excelentissimo ligurum principe Domino .D. Joa[n]ne Galea[m] Duce Mediolani.
Printed in Valdarfer's types 5:90/91G and 6:180G.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-h⁸ i⁶ k⁸ l-m⁶ n-p⁸: 118 leaves, leaves [1]/4 and a[1] blank. Leaf a[2] signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
With prefatory letter by Francesco de Tuppo (leaf a[1]v).
Dedicated to Ippolita Maria Sforza, duchess of Calabria.
Initial spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/4 and a[1] (blanks), and with [1]/1 bound after [1]/3.
Binding
18th-19th-century English tan sheepskin over paper boards (30.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; red edges. Notes on front fly leaf for colors and contents of spine labels.
Variant title
Massucii Salernitani de quinquaginta argumentis moralibus ad illustrissimam Hyppolitam
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription or price code: "cdn" (front fly leaf verso at gutter); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach, Jan. 1954.
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