Accession number
PML 18949
Creator
Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494.
Object title
Angeli Politiani miscellaneorvm centvriae primae ad Lavrentivm Medicem.
Published
Florentiae : Antonius Miscominus, Anno Salutis. M. CCCC. LXXXIX. Decimotertio kalendas octobris [19 September 1489].
Description
[94] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from caption (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf p3v): Impressit ex archetypo Antonius Miscominus. Familiares quidam Politiani recognouere. Politianus Ipse nec Horthographian se ait, nec omnino alienam pr[a]estare culpam. Florentiae Anno Salutis. M. CCCC. LXXXIX. Decimotertio kalendas octobris. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Miscomini's types 3:110/114R and a Greek type with 20 lines leaded to 120mm.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-o⁶ p⁴; [*²]: 94 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Spaces for initials, with printed guide letters.
The concluding sheet of Emendationes described by Hain was perhaps printed as an afterthought (BMC).
Some names in the list of authorities (leaves a4v-6v) have been stamped in after printing (BMC).
Imprint from colophon (leaf p3v): Impressit ex archetypo Antonius Miscominus. Familiares quidam Politiani recognouere. Politianus Ipse nec Horthographian se ait, nec omnino alienam pr[a]estare culpam. Florentiae Anno Salutis. M. CCCC. LXXXIX. Decimotertio kalendas octobris. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Miscomini's types 3:110/114R and a Greek type with 20 lines leaded to 120mm.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-o⁶ p⁴; [*²]: 94 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Spaces for initials, with printed guide letters.
The concluding sheet of Emendationes described by Hain was perhaps printed as an afterthought (BMC).
Some names in the list of authorities (leaves a4v-6v) have been stamped in after printing (BMC).
Binding
Modern blind- and gilt tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Miscellaneorum centuria prima
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, predominantly keywords but also some textual corrections.
Provenance
Claude de Bellièvre (1487-1557), signature (front fly leaf), inherited by his son: Pomponne de Bellièvre (1529-1607) (leaf a1r); unidentified shelf mark(?): Sex.M.234 (front fly leaf); H.C. Hoskier (1864-1938), without his typical notes and inscriptions; his sale, Sotheby's, 28 June 1908, lot 224; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from H.C. Hoskier, April 1909.
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