Accession number
PML 18889
Creator
Tortelli, Giovanni, approximately 1400-1466.
Object title
Ioannis Tortellii Aretini commentariorum gra[m]maticorvm de orthog[ra]phia dictionu[m] e grecis tractarvm.
Published
Insculptum est Romȩ : in domo de taliacoxis sub iussu Vlrici Galli Teutonici: et Simonis Nicolai Lucensis, .Mcccclxxi [1471, after 10 August].
Description
[304] leaves ; 40.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/3r: Ioannis Tortellii Aretini commentariorum gra[m]maticorvm de orthog[ra]phia dictionu[m] e grecis tractarvm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [33]/10v: Hoc opus exactum est tortelli insigne Iohannis. Quo sunt scripta soni nomina cuncta grauis. Insculptum est Romȩ in domo de taliacoxis sub iussu Vlrici Galli Teutonici: et Simonis Nicolai Lucensis. Anno do[mino] .Mcccclxxi. Pon. Sixti .iiii. Genue[n]sis anno p[ri]mo.
Printed in Han's types 1:150G , 4:103R, and a Greek type.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7⁶ 8-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13⁶ 14-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18⁶ 19⁸ 20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22-27¹⁰ 28⁸ 29¹² 30-32¹⁰ 33¹²]: 304 leaves, leaf [33]/11 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Edited and with preface by Adam de Montaltus.
The printer's copy is MS Vat. lat. 3319. See L. Capoduro, in Scrittura biblioteche e stampa, II (1983), 37-56 & Tavv. 2-89.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.4 x 27 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1-2. Moisture damage/staining from top edge down into the text block.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [33]/10v: Hoc opus exactum est tortelli insigne Iohannis. Quo sunt scripta soni nomina cuncta grauis. Insculptum est Romȩ in domo de taliacoxis sub iussu Vlrici Galli Teutonici: et Simonis Nicolai Lucensis. Anno do[mino] .Mcccclxxi. Pon. Sixti .iiii. Genue[n]sis anno p[ri]mo.
Printed in Han's types 1:150G , 4:103R, and a Greek type.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7⁶ 8-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13⁶ 14-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18⁶ 19⁸ 20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22-27¹⁰ 28⁸ 29¹² 30-32¹⁰ 33¹²]: 304 leaves, leaf [33]/11 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Edited and with preface by Adam de Montaltus.
The printer's copy is MS Vat. lat. 3319. See L. Capoduro, in Scrittura biblioteche e stampa, II (1983), 37-56 & Tavv. 2-89.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.4 x 27 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1-2. Moisture damage/staining from top edge down into the text block.
Binding
18th-century (French or Italian?) sheepskin over paper boards (40.5 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Variant title
Joannis Tortellii Aretini commentariorum grammaticorum de orthographia dictionum e grecis tractarum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian illumination and rubrication, with white vine initials and border decoration in silver, light blue, magenta, and green; minor initials in blue. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in text, mainly keywords, in first few quires only.
Provenance
Unidentified armorial (likely fictive and added later), with elements of the French, Spanish, and Portuguese royal armorials (leaf [1]/3r); Wilfred Voynich (bookseller), inscription (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April 1909.
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