Accession number
PML 128845
Creator
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1426-1503.
Object title
Ioannis Iouiani Pontani De aspiratione ad Marinum Tomacellum liber incipit.
Published
Impressu[m] Neapoli : [Mathias Moravus], Anno .M.CCCC.LXXXI. viii. Ianuarii [8 January 1481].
Description
[52] leaves (the first and last leaves blank) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2002.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [7]/5v.
Printed in Moravus's type 4:111R.
Signatures: [1-5⁸ 6-7⁶]: 52 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [7]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
One column of 35 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.2 x 17.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [7]/6 (blanks).
Imprint from colophon, leaf [7]/5v.
Printed in Moravus's type 4:111R.
Signatures: [1-5⁸ 6-7⁶]: 52 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [7]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
One column of 35 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.2 x 17.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [7]/6 (blanks).
Binding
18th/19th-century half green calf with marbled paper sides over paper boards (27 x 19 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified shelf marks: "H.2" and "Pp v. 2" (front pastedown); Sotheby's London, 13 Dec. 2001, lot 75 to Morgan via H.P. Kraus; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2002.
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