Opera Angeli Politiani : & alia quaedam lectu digna quorum nomina insequenti indice uidere licet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494.

Contributor:

Sarti, Alessandro.

Misintis, Bernardinus de, active 1492-1505, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1499

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Lulmus, Jacobus (autograph)

Physical Description:

212 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Opera

Fingerprint:

esas lesi rume beri (C) 1499 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Brescia] : [Bernardinus de Misintis], Die decimo augusti MID [10 Aug. 1499]

Language Note:

Text largely in Latin with some Greek.

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Edited by Alessandro Sarti. Cf. Goff.

Place of printing and printer's name supplied from ISTC in place of fictitious information in colophon on leaf M3v, which reads: Impressum Florentiae: & accuratissime castigatum o[per]a & impensa Leondari di Arigis de Gesoriaco Die decimo augusti. M.ID.

"Reprinted from the edition of Aldus, Venice, 1498 ...The fictitious imprint is intended to conceal the fact that the edition constitutes an infraction of Aldus's privilege for the 1498 original, and Aldus alludes to it in a petition to the Venetian Senate of 17 October, 1502, where he complains that in Brescia 'hano stampato una de sue opere et falsato, dicendo impressum Florentiae' (cf. R.C. Christie, An Incunabulum of Brescia, hitherto ascribed to Florence, in: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, vol. iv (1898), pp. 233, etc., also Proctor nos. 6421 and 7046). There seems no reason to doubt that the date of the colophon is correct."--BM 15th cent.

Chancery folio. Leaf a7v: 45 lines, plus headline; area of text: 229 (240) x 144 mm. (Elsewhere 46 lines to a full page; cf. BM 15th cent., GW.) Initial spaces, most with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures and catchwords (on versos of most leaves); without foliation. One line of uninked bearer impressions at foot of leaf a2.

Signatures: a⁸ b-q⁶ r⁸ s-u⁶ x⁴ y⁸ z⁶ A-L⁶ M⁴ (leaf M4 blank).

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 303 x 214 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has on title leaf early ms. transcription ("Quasi male vocalis anser Alterne sibi co[n]cinenteis [sic] olores Int[er]turbar[e?]") of a line from a letter dated 28 June 1494 of Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola to Iacopo Antiquari regarding Angelo Poliziano; some early ms. marginal notes and marks in text; a few ms. marginal marks in pencil in text; partially illegible modern ms. inscription ("No 2[...] [...] 20.") on verso of front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has autograph transcription of a Latin oration addressed to his fellow students of Virgil by Jacobus Lulmus (Jacopo Lolmo?) on verso of blank leaf at end of volume.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1959.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Est liber hic meus [qui] uocor certe Jacob[us] Que[m] [qui] robauerit [per] fide[m] se penitebit."), possibly that of the Jacobus Lulmus of the ms. inscription on verso of blank leaf at end of volume, in brown ink on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf M4 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has wormhole in inner margin of leaves a1-q1.

Cited in:

Goff P-887

BM 15th cent. VII, p. 992 (IB.31268)

GW M34724

BN cat. des incun. P-540

BSB-Ink. P-664

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3439

ISTC ip00887000

OCLC:

249362758