Epistolare Francisci Philelfi.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Filelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481.

Contributor:

• Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer.
• Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Correspondence. Selections

Language:

Latin

Genre:

• Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

• Leoncinus, Ludovicus (former owner) (inscription)
• Leoncinus, Benedictus (inscription)
• Wolf, Howard A. (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

274 unnumbered leaves ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Epistolae

Fingerprint:

usu- **s: imie tiia (C) 1496 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Johannes Amerbach], [not after July 1496]

Notes:

• A collection of Filelfo's letters dated between October 1427 and March 1461.
• Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).
• Imprint from ISTC. "The Harvard copy has an ownership inscription dated July 1496 (Walsh). CIBN dates 'post 1496'"--ISTC.
• Super-chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 37 lines, plus headline; area of text: 158 (166) x 95 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.
• Signatures: a-z⁸ A-K⁸ L¹⁰.

Local Notes:

• Leaf size: 217 x 153 mm.
• Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
• Penn Libraries copy has early ms. notes in brown ink on front pastedown; early ms. title ("Epistole Phil") in ink and a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper; early ms. notes (including a transcription of lines 1-5 of Juvenal's Satire X) and pen tests (in two hands?) in brown ink on verso of back free endpaper; some early ms. annotations, underlines and marginal marks (including a few manicules) in text.
• Penn Libraries copy has illustrated bookplate of Howard A. Wolf laid in.
• Penn Libraries copy has in brown ink on verso of title leaf partially effaced early (16th-century?) ms. ownership inscription ("Ex libris fr[atr]is ludouici Leoncinj de Ro[...] or[...] [...]" -- possibly to be read as "Ex libris fr[atr]is ludouici Leoncinj de Rocha [con]t[rada] ord. S. Augustinj"; cf. E. Celani, "Dediche, postille, dichiarazioni di proprietà ecc. nei libri a stampa della R. Biblioteca Angelica di Roma," La bibliofilia 7 (1905), p. 260); partially effaced, partially illegible early ms. gift inscription ("Dono data[m] [...] benedicto Leoncino [...]pore m[agist]ri d[omi]ni [...]") in brown ink on verso of title leaf.
• Penn Libraries copy bound in full early blind-tooled (rules and fleurs-de-lys) calf; 3 raised bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; ms. paper spine label ("Philelphi Epistolae").
• Penn Libraries copy: binding, pastedowns, free endpapers and a few leaves at beginning and end of volume wormed with damage to ms. notes on front pastedown and back free endpaper; wormhole in fore-edge margin of leaves r8-x8 and leaves y1-z8; small burn hole in central portion of leaf L8 with minimal damage to text.

Cited in:

• Goff P-597
• BM 15th cent. III, p. 758 (IA.37508)
• GW M32964
• BN cat. des incun. P-316
• BSB-Ink. P-436
• Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1190
• ISTC ip00297000

OCLC:

187461846