Mafei Vegei dialogus inter Alithiam et Philaliten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458.

Contributor:

Zell, Ulrich, -1503, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered leaves (the first and last leaves blanks) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Dialogus inter Alithiam et Philaliten

Goff title: Philalethes

Fingerprint:

.qci e.mp leq* Etpi (C) 1470 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zell], [1470?]

Notes:

Title from incipit of text on leaf [a]2r, which reads: Mafei Vegei dialogus inter Alithiam et Philaliten Incipit felici[ter].

Imprint from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf [a]2v: 27 lines; area of text: 141 x 81 mm. Initial spaces. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]-[b]⁸ (leaves [a]1 and [b]8 blanks).

BM 15th cent. records 16 leaves, the last two blank, with signature statement: [a]⁶ [b]¹⁰.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 205 x 140 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red (some with brown penwork extensions); underlines and capital strokes supplied in red.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1957.

Penn Libraries copy has gold-stamped red leather armorial bookplate ("BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA") of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana on front pastedown; ms. inscription ("Britwell Sale. Sotheby 3/5/1917. No 1115") recording the sale of this copy at Sotheby's in 1917 on leaf [a]1r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in modern one quarter brown morocco over brown cloth; author's surname, brief title and imprint date stamped in gold on spine.

Cited in:

Goff V-112

BM 15th cent. I, p. 186 (IA.2837)

GW M49524

BN cat. des incun. V-74

ISTC iv00112000

OCLC:

249380887