Hymni et epigrammata Marulli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marullo Tarcaniota, Michele, -1500.

Contributor:

Societas Colubris (Compagnia de Drago), printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Epigrams, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Epigrams, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Bargiacchus, Nicolaus (former owner) (inscription)

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 (autograph)

Gualando, Odoardo (former owner) (inscription)

Gualandus, Adovardus (former owner) (inscription)

Venturi, Francesco (former owner) (inscription)

Venturius, Franciscus (former owner) (inscription)

Viligiardus, Johannes Franciscus (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

96 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Hymni et epigrammata Marvlli

Goff title: Epigrammatum libri IV ; Hymnorum naturalium libri IV

Fingerprint:

e.e: e.i. O.o. DEIn (C) 1497 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressit Florentiae : Societas Colubris, VI. Kal. Decembris MCCCCLXXXXVII [26 Nov. 1497]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf m6r. "The word 'Colubris' in the colophon appears to have been originally printed 'Colubri.', and changed by stamping s over the full point."--BM 15th cent.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 25 lines; area of text: 136 x 82 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a-m⁸.

Errata on leaves m7r-m8r. "[A]pparently composed by Marullus himself (A. Perosa, Michaelis Marulli carmina (Zurich, 1951), p. xiii). Two vellum copies (one BL IA.28046) are recorded without these leaves, 'the errors having been carefully corrected by erasure and pen-and-ink' in the text (BMC; Perosa p. xiii n. 20)"--ISTC.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 209 x 139 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. underlines and marginal notes and a few marks and manicules in brown ink in text; modern ms. bibliographical notes in ink and pencil on inside front cover and in pencil on front flyleaf.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy has dated 20th-century autograph ("SC Cockerell Richmond Surrey 1902") of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell on title leaf; ms. purchase note ("Bought at Sotheby's 14 Nov. 1902, no. 382") in his hand on inside front cover. Cf. Catalogue of rare and valuable printed books and illuminated and other manuscripts ... which will be sold at auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge ... on Thursday, the 13th of November, 1902 and two following days ... (London: Dryden Press, 1902), no. 382.

Penn Libraries copy has 16th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Adouardi Gualandi Pisani."), struck through, of Odoardo Gualando, Bishop of Cesena (d. 1587?), in brown ink at head of title leaf; early ms. ownership inscription ("Francisci Venturij") of Francesco Venturi in two hands in brown ink on title leaf (the second instance repeated in the same hand at foot of leaf a2r); 18th-century(?) ms. ownership inscription ("Nicolaj Bargiacchj") of Nicolaus Bargiacchus in brown ink on title leaf; early ms. ownership inscription ("ex Libris Io Fran. Viligiardi") of Johannes Franciscus Viligiardus in brown ink at foot of title leaf (followed by ms. numeral "21" in the same(?) hand).

Penn Libraries copy bound in early full parchment; ms. shelf-mark ("19") and title ("Marullj Poemata") in brown ink on spine; partially illegible 13-line early Latin ms. inscription on front cover; ms. numeral ("345") in blue pencil on front cover.

Cited in:

Goff M-342

BM 15th cent. VI, p. 691 (IA.28045, IB.28046)

GW M21494

BN cat. des incun. M-201

BSB-Ink. M243

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3023

ISTC im00342000

OCLC:

15219717