Accession number
PML 391
Creator
Gaffurius, Franchinus, 1451-1522.
Object title
Theorica musice Franchini Gafuri laudensis.
Published
Impressum Mediolani : per magistrum Philippum Mantegatium dictum Cassanum opera & impensa magistri Ioannis Petri de Lomatio, anno salutis M.cccc.Lxxxxii. die xv Decembris [15 December 1492].
Description
[68] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm. (fol)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf k8r).
Printed in Mantegatius's type 1:110R.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a⁸ b-i⁶ k⁸: 68 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Woodcut on half-title page labeled "Introductorum musices f. gafori."
Spaces for initials, with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.8 cm.
Imprint from colophon (leaf k8r).
Printed in Mantegatius's type 1:110R.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a⁸ b-i⁶ k⁸: 68 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Woodcut on half-title page labeled "Introductorum musices f. gafori."
Spaces for initials, with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.8 cm.
Binding
18th-century calf over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves.
Variant title
Theorica musicae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few, sporadic marginal notations in text.
Provenance
[Demetrius Boutourlin (1790-1850), provenance suggested in Bennett cat. but only 1480 Naples edition in Boutourlin sale;] William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: s/-/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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