Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii liber primus[-nonusdecimus].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gellius, Aulus.

Contributor:

Bonini, Bonino, approximately 1450-1528, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Noctes Atticae

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Fundatio Baldaufica (former owner) (inscription)

Ritter-Waldauf-Bibliothek (stamp)

Waldaufstiftung (Solbad Hall in Tirol, Austria) (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

192 unnumbered leaves ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Avli Gelii Noctivm Atticarvm commentarii liber primvs[-nonvsdecimvs]

Fingerprint:

s.e. emn- dut. gaDe (C) 1485 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressum Brixiae : Per Boninu[m] de Boninis de Ragusia, Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV die tercio Martii [3 Mar. 1485]

Language Note:

In Latin, with portions in Greek.

Notes:

Title from caption on leaf a1r.

Imprint from colophon on leaf 2B8v, which reads: Impressum Brixiae per Boninu[m] de Boninis de Ragusia anno domini. M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die tercio Martii. Correctore Marco Scaramucino de Palatiolo.

Chancery folio. Leaf a2r: 37 lines, plus headline; area of text: 203 (213) x 123 mm. Initial spaces. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: 2A-2B⁸ a⁸ b-d⁶ e⁸ f-o⁶ p⁸ q-z⁶ &⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A⁶ B⁸.

Leaf y1 signed "x ii".

Caption on leaf 2A1v: Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii capitula primi libri.

"Known in two variants: L. Donati, in Archivio storico per la Dalmazia 2 (1927-28) pp. 181-98, and Baroncelli 430"--ISTC.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 302 x 199 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations (in more than one hand?), underlines, marginal marks and manicules in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy has early Latin ms. inscription ("q[ui]s[?] sit fortassis possessor q[uae]rere libri") in brown ink at head of leaf 2A1r.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy has partially effaced dated late 16th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Waldauff[icae?] Fundationis A[nn]o 15 90") of the Fundatio Baldaufica (Waldaufstiftung), Solbad Hall in Tirol, Austria, in brown ink at foot of leaf 2A2r; blue ink stamp, now largely effaced, of the Ritter-Waldauf-Bibliothek at foot of leaf 2A1r and 2A2r.

Penn Libraries copy has hand-colored armorial bearings (of an unidentified former owner?) at foot of leaf 2A1v.

Penn Libraries copy bound in one quarter modern calf(?) over contemporary square-edge wooden boards; author's name ("Aulus Gelius") in ms. on left board; 2 early metal catchplates on left board (with evidence of earlier different catchplates); remains of 2 leather and metal clasps on right board (with evidence of earlier different clasps); 3 raised, blind-tooled bands on spine; spine tooled in blind at head and foot; parchment finding tabs, most intact.

Penn Libraries copy has a few wormholes in leaves; tear in fore-edge margin of leaf i3.

Cited in:

Goff G-122

BM 15th cent. VII, p. 968 (IB.31080)

GW 10597

BSB-Ink. G-65

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3398

ISTC ig00122000

OCLC:

15162850