Accession number
PML 479
Creator
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
Object title
De le maraveliose cose del mondo.
Published
Cita de Bressa : Batista da Farfengo, adi .xx. December .M.ccccc [20 December 1500]
Description
[64] leaves ; 16 x 10.5 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from title page (leaf a1r): Marco Polo da Venesia de le maraveliose cose del Mondo.
Colophon (leaf i4r): Impressa la presente opera per el Venerabile miser pre Batista da Farfengo nella Magnifica cita de Bressa. adi .xx. December .M.ccccc.
Printed in type 1:100R and 1*:115G.
Collation: a-g⁸ h-i⁴: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
1 woodcut, on title page (leaf a1r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 15.3 x 9.9 cm
Colophon (leaf i4r): Impressa la presente opera per el Venerabile miser pre Batista da Farfengo nella Magnifica cita de Bressa. adi .xx. December .M.ccccc.
Printed in type 1:100R and 1*:115G.
Collation: a-g⁸ h-i⁴: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
1 woodcut, on title page (leaf a1r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 15.3 x 9.9 cm
Binding
19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled purple straight-grained morocco over paper boards (16 x 10.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Delle maravigliose cose del mondo
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized where needed (guide letters), most initials printed in woodcut. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
George Wilbraham (1779-1852), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), inherited by his son: Roger William Wilbraham (1817-1897); his sale, Sotheby's, 20 June 1898, lot 287, to Leighton for £3.3; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 320, 21/8/1900 and price code: ws/-/- (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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