Accession number
PML 22229
Creator
Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, active 1st century.
Object title
C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon liber primus incipit feliciter.
Published
Bononiae : Impressum per me Vgonem Rugerium et Doninum Bertochum regienses, anno Domini .M.CCCC.LXXIIII. die septima Madii [7 May 1474].
Description
[82] leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 30 cm. (folio)
Credit line
Purchased in 1924.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [10]/9r).
Printed in Rugerius and Bertochus's type 1:98R.
Collation: [1-9⁸ 10¹⁰]: 82 leaves, leaf [10]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Capital spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 18.7 cm.
Imprint from colophon (leaf [10]/9r).
Printed in Rugerius and Bertochus's type 1:98R.
Collation: [1-9⁸ 10¹⁰]: 82 leaves, leaf [10]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Capital spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 18.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled red goatskin over paper boards (30 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, modern initials mimicing engraving and red ruling lines. 15th-century headlines washed/faded. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. List of bibliographic references (front fly leaf).
Provenance
Demetrius Boutourlin (1790-1850), bookplate (front pastedown) and shelf mark: no. 100 (front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach, Jan. 1924.
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