Accession number
PML 31846
Object title
Dicta, sive Sententiae septem sapientium Graeciae.
Uniform title
Seven sages of Greece.
Published
[Cologne] : [Johann Guldenschaff], [about 1485]
Description
[8] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1935.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/1r: [M]Ag[ni]ficis et eximijs d[omi]nis Petro rinch in artib[us] M[a]g[ist]ro vtriusq[ue] iuris Docto[r]i et alme vniuersitatis studij Colon[iensis].
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Flavius Wilhelmus Raimundus Mithridates.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 cm.
Incipit, leaf [1]/1r: [M]Ag[ni]ficis et eximijs d[omi]nis Petro rinch in artib[us] M[a]g[ist]ro vtriusq[ue] iuris Docto[r]i et alme vniuersitatis studij Colon[iensis].
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Flavius Wilhelmus Raimundus Mithridates.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (20 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Sententiae septem sapientium Graeciae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations through, mostly faded/bleached.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, Nov. 1935.
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