Mari Philelphi Epistole octagi[n]ta epistolarum genera complectentes acriori lima nuper recognite quarum singula genera in tria membra partita sunt. Quibus preponuntur eiusdem nounulla [sic] artis rhetorices precepta epistolari arti no[n] parum accommoda.
Giovanni Mario Filelfo (1426-1480)
Category
Books
Date
1511
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3025576
Summary
Bibliographic description
[130] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6997. Final leaf y4 mounted on blank paper, lower left corner missing. Underlining of text sporadically throughout, e.g. on leaves d3v-e4v, e7r-f2r. Provenance: contemporary sixteenth-century manuscript inscriptions written in two different hands around printer's device on title page: "Veni sponsa Cristi, accipe corona qua[m]", "Vitalis me habet", and "O Virgo … [illegible] dulcis amira …". Nineteenth-century former shelfmark on front pastedown: 17.E.10. Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound calf with marbled paper over boards; blind-tooled spine with gilt title on green leather label and incorrect date 1481; nineteenth-century endpapers; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Mario Filelfo (1426-1480), author Valerand de la Varanne, author Ludovicus Mondellus, editor Jean Gaultier (fl. 1511), printer Radulphus Laliseau, bookseller