Accession number
PML 387
Creator
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Object title
Epistolae in Pontificatu editae. Ed: Petrus Augustinus Philelfus.
Published
Milan : Antonius Zarotus, for Johannes de Legnano, 31 May 1481.
Description
(4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Royal quarto (27 x 20.2 cm)
Binding
Contemporary Italian long-stitch binding sewn through a thick paper wrapper, incorporating two exterior parchment guards at sewing stations and covered with blind-tooled brown leather (27.4 x 19 cm). Endpaper made from two sheets of thinner paper wrapped around spine and incorporated into primary sewing. Outermost leaves used as pastedowns, single flyleaves at front and back. Sewing and paper cover visible due to loss of leather at spine. Treated in the Thaw Conservation Center, 2014.
Provenance
From the libraries of William Morris and Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
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