Accession number
PML 79815
Creator
Traversagni, Lorenzo Guglielmo, 1425-1503.
Object title
Modus conficiendi epistolas.
Published
[Paris] : p[er] Anthoniu[m] cayllaut, [about 1493]
Description
[8] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1989.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Printer from colophon, leaf a8r: Modus conficiendi epistolas perbrevis fratris Guilermi Sophonensis oratoris elega[n]tissimi feliciter finem habet p[er] Anthoniu[m] cayllaut.
Dated by Hillard from the types, the address "ad intersignium hominis silvestris" and the state of the device. GW dates ca. 1491/92 based on the address and device, see Renouard, Imprimeurs, p. 83.
Signatures: a⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Caillaut's printer's mark with S. Antonius and initials AC, leaf a1r.
Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
The author also appears in catalogues as Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni and Guillermus Saphonensis (the name used in the text).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 13.3 cm.
Printer from colophon, leaf a8r: Modus conficiendi epistolas perbrevis fratris Guilermi Sophonensis oratoris elega[n]tissimi feliciter finem habet p[er] Anthoniu[m] cayllaut.
Dated by Hillard from the types, the address "ad intersignium hominis silvestris" and the state of the device. GW dates ca. 1491/92 based on the address and device, see Renouard, Imprimeurs, p. 83.
Signatures: a⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Caillaut's printer's mark with S. Antonius and initials AC, leaf a1r.
Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
The author also appears in catalogues as Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni and Guillermus Saphonensis (the name used in the text).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 13.3 cm.
Binding
Modern blind-tooled half calf, with brown paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Laurence Witten Rare Books, March 1989.
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