Title from caption on leaf [a]1r.; Imprint from ISTC.; Chancery quarto. Leaf [a]2r: 29 lines; area of text: 160 x 72 mm. Printed initial (leaf [a]1r). Without signatures, foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for.; Signatures: [a]⁶.; Explicit of text on leaf [a]6v reads: Finita e la confessione de Aloigii de Pulcis.; Leaf size: 196 x 130 mm.; Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. shelf-mark(?) ("P.7") in pencil on front pastedown; modern ms. foliation in pencil ("1"-"6") in tail outer corner of leaves.; Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.; Penn Libraries copy has ms. note ("Collated & perfect p.p. Bernard Quaritch E.M.D.") in pencil by E.M. Dring, an employee of bookseller Bernard Quaritch of London, on back pastedown.; Penn Libraries copy has paper slip (9 x 9 cm.) with bookseller's brief ms. description of this copy laid in; paper slip (11 x 14 cm.) with bookseller's printed description of this copy laid in.; Penn Libraries copy bound in full green morocco; boards and spine tooled in gold; title ("CONFESSIONE DE ALOIGII DE PULCIS SENZA NOTA") stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt; numerous blank leaves inserted at end of volume.; Penn Libraries copy: small portion of tail margin of leaf [a]5 torn off and mended with a blank leaf.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Incunables, Inc P-1126
Collection:
Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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