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C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon liber primus incipit feliciter.

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.
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.
Classification
Century
Department