Accession number
PML 472
Creator
Valturio, Roberto, 1405-1475.
Object title
Ad magnanimum et illustrem heroa Sigismundum Pandulphum Malatestam splendidissimum Ariminensium regem ac imperatorem semper invictum Roberti Valturii rei militaris librorum praefatio.
Published
Veronae impressum : [Boninus de Boninis, de Ragusia], anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxiii. xiii. februarii [13 February 1483]
Description
[254] leaves ; 318 mm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Notes
Title from caption in capitals at beginning of preface on leaf a1 recto.
Place and date of printing from colophon on leaf E9 recto; printer's name from Dante Alighieri III's verse on leaf E9 recto, which reads: "Quisquis funesto ualidas sub Marte cohortes ... Ille raguseum tollat super astra Boninum Ingenioq[ue] uiri præmia digna ferat Impressit ..."
Printed in Boninus's types 1:90G (leaf &7r only) and 2:113R.
Signatures: [1⁶]; a¹⁰ b-z⁸ & ¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ A-D⁸ E¹⁰: 312 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and E10 blank. Quire [1] with leaves 2 and 3 signed ii and iii.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Paulus Ramusius.
Woodcut illustrations on leaves c7v, m1v-m2r, r1r, t5r-z7r, & 5r- & 7r, [con2]r-[con8]r.
1 column of 37 lines. Spaces left blank for initials, occasionally with printed guide letter.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.3 x 20.6 cm.
Place and date of printing from colophon on leaf E9 recto; printer's name from Dante Alighieri III's verse on leaf E9 recto, which reads: "Quisquis funesto ualidas sub Marte cohortes ... Ille raguseum tollat super astra Boninum Ingenioq[ue] uiri præmia digna ferat Impressit ..."
Printed in Boninus's types 1:90G (leaf &7r only) and 2:113R.
Signatures: [1⁶]; a¹⁰ b-z⁸ & ¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ A-D⁸ E¹⁰: 312 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and E10 blank. Quire [1] with leaves 2 and 3 signed ii and iii.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Paulus Ramusius.
Woodcut illustrations on leaves c7v, m1v-m2r, r1r, t5r-z7r, & 5r- & 7r, [con2]r-[con8]r.
1 column of 37 lines. Spaces left blank for initials, occasionally with printed guide letter.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.3 x 20.6 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with printed paper sides, over paper boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript title on bottom edge most trimmed away.
Provenance
Worms (Rhineland-Pfalz), Capuchins, inscriptions: "FF. Capucinorum Wormatiens[um]" (leaf [1]/1r) and "F. C[a]pucin: Wormatiensum" (leaf [1]/2r); Rev. Edward Betham (1707-1783); his sale, Sotheby's, 13 May 1784; Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription, 27 May 1784 (first paper fly leaf) and armorial (preserved from former binding, now front pastedown), purchased at Betham sale for £0.15.0, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 2653 for £30; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Bernard Quaritch (collation note by F.S. Ferguson preserved from former binding, rear fly leaf), June 1903.
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