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Title
Aulus Gelius.
Uniform title
Noctes Atticae
Created/published
Venetiis : Per Bernardinu[m] de Choris de Cremona, & Simone[m] de Luero, 1489 die xiii. Augusti.
Description
[10], cxxi, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Gellius, Aulus. author.
Gray, J. P., binder.
Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), 1864-1938, former owner.
Mander, Gerald Poynton, former owner.
Luere, Simone da, printer.
Cori, Bernardino de', printer.
Certosa di Garegnano (Milan, Italy), former owner.
Gray, J. P., binder.
Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), 1864-1938, former owner.
Mander, Gerald Poynton, former owner.
Luere, Simone da, printer.
Cori, Bernardino de', printer.
Certosa di Garegnano (Milan, Italy), former owner.
Note
Incipit (leaf c1r): Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii liber primus.
Imprint from colophon (leaf r9v).
Signatures: a⁶, b⁴, c-q⁸, r¹⁰.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Includes register.
Imprint from colophon (leaf r9v).
Signatures: a⁶, b⁴, c-q⁸, r¹⁰.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Includes register.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-123
BM 15th cent., V, p. 464 (IB.23418)
GW 10598
BM 15th cent., V, p. 464 (IB.23418)
GW 10598
Genre/form
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Item Details
Call number
INC G111
Folger-specific note
Last leaf, blank, lacking; a few gatherings at the end of the book washed, affecting manuscript notes. Manuscript notes in brown ink in several hands throughout the book with a few corrections in text and a note in colophon "Legi". Recent morocco binding with Gerald Mander's arms on front cover (J.P. Gray & son, Cambridge). Ownership inscription at foot of leaf c1r, defaced, partially illegible: "Monrij Cartusi[a]e[?] Mediolani p[ro]pe Garegnanũ sigo. A. G. [crossed out] 177."; autograph of H.C. Hoskier on front flyleaf (no. 125 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, June 1908), with his date "Oct. 1902", his provenance "Of J. Rosenthal Munich nr[?] 39.", and his bibliographical notes; bookplate of Gerald P. Mander; purchased in 1954.