Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).; Imprint from colophon on leaf g8v.; Chancery quarto, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 40 lines to a full column; area of text: 159 x 113 mm.; col. width: 55 mm. "GW 5717, produced by the same printer, January 5, 1491, is printed in Gothic type on 44 leaves and has 48 lines."--Hirsch. Initial spaces. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Register on leaf g8v.; Signatures: a-g⁸.; "Possibly confused by Hain as an edition of Luca di Pulci's 'Il Driadeo' (cf. Hain 13582)."--Goff.; Penn Libraries copy bound with: Pulci, Luca. Driadeo damore. [Venice : Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca?), ca. 1492-1495?] (Goff P-1112); Leaf size: 183 x 141 mm.; Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.; Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark(?) ("No 693.") in brown ink and ms. bibliographical notes in pencil at head of blank leaf preceding title leaf of first work in volume.; Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.; Penn Libraries copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("AKlein 1807") of A. Klein in brown ink at foot of title leaf of first work in volume.; Penn Libraries copy bound in one quarter red morocco over brown cloth; 5 raised bands on spine; author's surname ("PULCI") and brief title ("IL DRIADEO") of first work in volume stamped in gold on spine; imprint date of second work in volume ("1491") stamped in gold at foot of spine.; Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at all margins (closely cropped at head margin with damage to first line of text on leaves b4v, b8r, c3r, d2r, d2v (right column), d4r, d8r, f1r, f2r, f4r, f8r, f8v, g1r, g1v, g3v, g4v, and g8r and loss of first line of text on leaf d2v (left column)); wormholes in tail margin and lower portion of leaves g2-g8 (most mended) with minor damage to text; wormholes in upper portion of leaves g4-g8 with minor damage to text on leaves g4-g6 and minor loss of text on leaves g7-g8; pinhole(?) in head outer corner of leaves a2-d8.; Penn Libraries copy: first four leaves of gathering c either missigned or misbound in the following order: c3, c4, c1, c2.; Facsimile available for public use.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Incunables, Inc B-1276 bound with Inc P-1112
Collection:
Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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