M.V. Martialis Epigrammaton libri xiiij. summa diligentia castigati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martial.

Contributor:

Colines, Simon de, 1480?-1546, printer.

Judith Clark Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Epigrammata

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- France -- Paris -- 16th century.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Birde, John (autograph)

Bird, Thomas (former owner) (inscription)

Thoracus(?), William (former owner) (inscription)

Tounde(?), Mr. (inscription)

Selbourne Library (stamp)

Selbourne, Hugh (former owner)

Physical Description:

207 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

M.V. Martialis Epigrammaton libri XIIII summa diligentia castigati

Epigrammaton libri xiiij.

Epigrammaton libri XIIII

Fingerprint:

o.am o,ri m,et TiBe (3) 1539 (A)

Place of Publication:

Parisiis : Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1539.

Notes:

Signatures: a-z⁸ A-C⁸ (leaf C8 blank).

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device) and initials.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Clark Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Furness Collection copy bound with: [The long accidence]. Enprynted at London ... : By ... Hary Pepwell, In the yer[e] of our Lorde A. M.CCCCC. and .xi[x] [1519].

Furness Collection copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown; early ms. notes in brown ink on leaf C8v; some early ms. underlines, marginal notes and manicules in text; occasional passages struck through.

Furness Collection copy purchased at auction at Bonhams London, 25 March 2015, lot 31.

Furness Collection copy has early autograph ("joh[a]n[ne]s Birde") of John Birde in brown ink on title leaf; partially illegible ms. inscription ("joh[...]s b[...]d[...]"), possibly also an autograph of John Birde, on front free endpaper.

Furness Collection copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Thomas Birds booke.") in brown ink on title leaf; partially illegible early ms. ownership inscription ("Wmi Thoraci[?] Liber") in brown ink on title leaf; partially illegible early ms. gift inscription ("Ex Dono D[o]m[i]ni Shaw[?]") in brown ink at head of title leaf; early ms. inscription ("Mr Tounde[?]") in brown ink on leaf C8v.

Furness Collection copy has round stamp ("Selbourne Library") of the library of Dr. Hugh Selbourne (1906-1973) on verso of title leaf and on leaf g3r.

Furness Collection copy bound in full contemporary blind-tooled calf; central panel on each board surrounded by roll-tooled border (Oldham HM. c(2) 799); 4 raised bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels. Cf. Bonhams (Firm : 2001).

Furness Collection copy has portion of an early parchment ms. leaf from a copy of Peter Lombard's Sententiarum libri IV used as binder's waste at beginning of vol. The leaf is frame-ruled in lead(?) and written in a Gothic bookhand in double columns with marginal and interlinear notes; text and notes in brown ink with initials in blue and red ink; rubrics and capital strokes in red ink; text: liber III, distinctio 10.

Furness Collection copy has portion of an early parchment ms. leaf, probably from a breviary, used as binder's waste at end of vol. The leaf is ruled in ink and written in a Gothic bookhand with text in dark ink; rubrics and capital strokes in red.

Furness Collection copy: lower portion of some leaves at beginning of vol. dampstained; occasional ink blots and smears on leaves; a few wormholes in some leaves at beginning and end of vol.

Cited in:

Adams M-698

Bonhams (Firm : 2001). Library of the late Hugh Selbourne, M.D., part 1, 31

OCLC:

5135420