Accession number
PML 37
Creator
Valerius Maximus.
Object title
Facta et dicta memorabilia.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [not after 1470]
Description
[160] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Printed in Mentelin's type 2a:112b.
For the date, see V. Scholderer in The Library, 20 (1939) p.48, n.1 (= 50 Essays, p.153 n.2).
Collation: [1-16¹⁰]: 160 leaves, leaf [16]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy with printing variant: leaf [14]/2r lacks first line of text and first line of leaf [14]/2v repeats preceding line from 2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21.4 cm.
PML copy mising 1 leaf: [16]/10 (blank).
Watermark: Bull's head, two variants. Variant 1) on f 1/4v and 1/5v, variant 2) on f 2/1v and 2/4v.
For the date, see V. Scholderer in The Library, 20 (1939) p.48, n.1 (= 50 Essays, p.153 n.2).
Collation: [1-16¹⁰]: 160 leaves, leaf [16]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy with printing variant: leaf [14]/2r lacks first line of text and first line of leaf [14]/2v repeats preceding line from 2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 21.4 cm.
PML copy mising 1 leaf: [16]/10 (blank).
Watermark: Bull's head, two variants. Variant 1) on f 1/4v and 1/5v, variant 2) on f 2/1v and 2/4v.
Binding
Modern full red gilt-tooled morocco over stiff paper boards (31.6 x 22.8 cm), by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript quire numbering in bottom center margin.
Provenance
Henri d'Orelans, duc d'Aumale (1822-1897), bibliographic note (third fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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