Bod-Inc: P-415
Poggius Florentinus
Facetiae.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Poggius Florentinus: Facetiae. Poggio Bracciolini, Facezie, ed. Pittaluga, 2-296 nos 1-51, 54-5, 52-3, 56-251, 197, 252-73; see also Sozzi 440 no. 21 and Hellinga 99 ‘Milan II’ which follows ‘Milan I’ (= Pr 5882; which follows Rome B).
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 19 Oct. 1481. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–k8].
Types: Type: 98 R.
Leaves: 80 leaves.
Line number: 29 lines ([a2v]).
Type area: Type area: 143 ×86 mm ([a2v]).
Remarks: Capital spaces, with guide-letters.
References
ISTC: ip00865000
Hain: HC 13190;
Goff: Goff P‑865;
Proctor: Pr 5939;
Others: Sheppard 4941.
LCN: 14089237
Copies
Copy number: P-415(1)
Leaf [k8r], colophon l. 2: ‘ . . . pachel Vl | dericū . . .’
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled (fillet only) red morocco, with yellow-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 214 × 148 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 211 × 137 mm.
Heber's note on front endleaf: ‘This was Mr. Croft's copy. Sold at his auction 1783 for 1.12.0 and at Col. Stanley's (1813) 23.0.0. White Knights sale 3373. 4.14.6 Triphook comm. 5% -4.9/ 4.19.3.' Early manuscript foliation: 1-80.
On [a1r] a six-line initial ‘M' is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration on a square ground of red pen-work decoration with extension into the margin.
Provenance: Georgius Antonius Vespucius (c.1434-1514); inscription on [k8v]: ‘Georgij Antonij Vespucij liber'. Thomas Crofts (1722-1781); sale (London: Paterson, 7 Apr. 1783), lot 2707, for £1. 12. 0. Col Thomas Stanley (1749-1818); sale, Bibliotheca Stanleiana. A . . . Selection of Rare and Fine Books from the . . . Library of Colonel Stanley (London: R. H. Evans, 30 Apr.-7 May 1813), lot 461. Purchased for £23. 0. 0 by Robert Triphook. George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough (1766-1840); sale (26 June 1819), lot 3373. Purchased by Heber through Triphook for £4. 19. 3, according to his note on front endleaf. Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 2822. Purchased for £1. 12. 0, according to Books Purchased (1835), 23.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.56.
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