Accession number
PML 321
Creator
Valerius Maximus.
Object title
Valerii Maximi factorum ac dictorum memborabilium.
Published
Venice : P.F., B.R., S.F., Z.F., 1 July 1478.
Description
[136] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a5r): VALERII MAXIMI FACTORUM: AC DICTORUM MEMORABILIUM LIBER AD TIBERIUM CAESAREM. PROLOGUS.
Colophon (leaf t8v): .P.F. M.CCCC.LXXVIII. KL. JULII. .S.F. .B.R. VENETIIS IMPRESSIT. .Z.F.
Printed in type 1:112R and 112Gk.
Collation: a-h⁸ i⁶ k⁸; l⁸ m-s⁶ t⁸
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Bonus Accursius.
Printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20 cm.
Colophon (leaf t8v): .P.F. M.CCCC.LXXVIII. KL. JULII. .S.F. .B.R. VENETIIS IMPRESSIT. .Z.F.
Printed in type 1:112R and 112Gk.
Collation: a-h⁸ i⁶ k⁸; l⁸ m-s⁶ t⁸
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Bonus Accursius.
Printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20 cm.
Binding
Modern full brown calf over boards (29.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Facta et dicta memorabilia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations and text corrections throughout, heavier near beginning; manuscript headlines.
Provenance
Ferrara, Olivetans, San Giorgio, inscription, 16th century: "Iste liber est monasterii st. giorgii de ferraria ordinis mo[n]tis ol[ive]ti [??]" and "Celso da puroxa sig" (leaf a1r); unidentified shelf marks: VA M. 214, 16th century (leaf a2r), Y.2.21, 18th/19th century (rear pastedown, from previous binding); Earls of Hopetoun, armorial bookplate with shelf mark: T_8 and price £1-15-0 (front pastedown, from previous binding), collection inherited and sold by John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th earl of Hopetoun (1860-1908); Hopetoun House sale, Sotheby's, 25 Feb. 1889, lot 1239; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, from previous binding) and price code: w/wm/- +___ (rear pastedown, from previous binding); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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