Bod-Inc: C-391
Columna, Franciscus
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili [Latin and Italian].
Analysis of Content
[*1v] Crassus Veronensis, Leonardus: [Letter to] Guido [Guidantonius da Montefeltro], Duke of Urbino. Franciscus Columna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ed. Giovanni Pozzi and Lucia A. Ciapponi, 2 vols (Padua, 1964), at I pp. ix–x.
[*2r] Scytha, Johannes Baptista: ‘Carmen'. Dedicated to Leonardus Crassus. Columna, Hypnerotomachia, ed. Pozzi and Ciapponi, I, p. x.
[*2r] ‘Elegia ad lectorem'. Columna, Hypnerotomachia, ed. Pozzi and Ciapponi, I, pp. x–xii.
[*3r] [Summary. Italian.] Columna, Hypnerotomachia, ed. Pozzi and Ciapponi, I, pp. xii–xiii.
[*3v] [Poem. Italian.] Columna, Hypnerotomachia, ed. Pozzi and Ciapponi, at I, pp. xiii–xv.
[*4v] Maro Brixianus, Andreas: [Poem. Latin.] Columna, Hypnerotomachia, ed. Pozzi and Ciapponi, I p. xv.
[*4v] [Poem. Latin.] Columna, Hypnerotomachia, ed. Pozzi and Ciapponi, I p. xv.
a1v [Columna, Franciscus: Letter from Poliphilus to Polia.] Columna, Hypnerotomachia, ed. Pozzi and Ciapponi, I 2. On authorship see M. T. Casella and G. Pozzi, Francesco Colonna, Biografia e opere, 2 vols (Padua, 1959), at II 11 -2; Piero Scapecchi argues that Columna is the dedicatee, and that the author is Fra Eliseo da Treviso; see ‘L'»Hypnerotomachia Poliphili« e il suo autore', in Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia, 51 (1983), 286-98, and ‘Giunte e considerazioni per la bibliografia sul »Polifilo«', in Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia, 53 (1985), 68-73; see also E. Fumagalli, [review of] F. Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, in Aevum, 55 (1981), 571-83.
a1v [Columna, Franciscus]: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Columna, Hypnerotomachia, ed. Pozzi and Ciapponi, I 3.
F4r [Errata.]
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Dec. 1499. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a–y8 z10 A–E8 F4. Gathering [*] is numbered but not signed.
Illustrations: Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ic00767000
GW: GW 7223;
Hain: HC *5501;
Goff: Goff C‑767;
BMC: BMC V 561;
Proctor: Pr 5574;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑471; Hillard 649; Oates 2192-3; Rhodes 609; Sander 2056; Scapecchi, ‘Annali', 36; Sheppard 4667-8. Facsimiles: (Westmead, Farnborough, 1969); (London, 1904).
LCN: 14427459
Copies
Copy number: C-391(1)
The second (regular) state as described by Philip Hofer, Variant Copies of the 1499 Poliphilus (New York, 1932). This copy has cancellans a1.8 and the first setting of the other reset sheets: see Neil Harris, 'Nine Reset Sheets in the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499)', Gutenberg Jahrbuch (2006), 245-75. For the blind impressions see Neil Harris, 'The Blind Impressions in the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499)', Gutenberg Jahrbuch (2004), 93-146, esp. table of impressions at pp. 136-46.
Binding: Mid sixteenth-century French laced case limp calf parchment; overlapping head and tail turn-ins; sewn on six twisted alum tawed supports which are laced through the cover; comb lining; remains of silk headband; two green silk ties, now almost completely lost.
Size: 319 × 215 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 314 × 206 mm.
Fragments of a parchment manuscript used as reinforcing strips.
Occasional early marginal notes, mainly from gathering A onwards.
Provenance: Inside the upper cover ‘Achille Richerdio logeant a la lecorne en la rue de la chapele a Bruxeles' in a sixteenth-century(?) hand. Acquired before 1738; see Fysher (1738) I 580.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2R 1.17.
Copy number: C-391(2)
The second (regular) state as described in Hofer, Variant Copies. This copy has cancellans a1.8 and the first setting of the other reset sheets: see Harris, 'Nine Reset Sheets', 245-75. For the blind impressions see Harris, 'Blind Impressions', 93-146, esp. table of impressions at pp. 136-46.
Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco, the spine tooled in gold with small drawer-handle tools; stamped with the arms of the duc de Brancas de Lauragnais (Olivier 740); marbled pastedowns.
Size: 323 × 217 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 313 × 200 mm.
Provenance: Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824). Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce C subt. 174.
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