In hoc uolumine habentur haec. Cornucopiae, siue linguae latinae com[m]entarij diligentissime recogniti: atq[ue] ex archetypo emendati. . Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium, ... Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynij epistola, ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. Cornelij Vitellij in eum ipsum libellum Sypontini annotationes. M. Terentij Varronis de lingua latina libri tres quartus. Quintus. Sextus. Eiusdem de analogia libri tres. Sexti Pompeij Festi undeuiginti librorum fragmenta. Nonij Marcelli compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est: non ante impressa, id[a]q[ue] labore, & diligentia Iucundi nostri Veronensis: qui in gallia nonium cum antiquis contulit exemplaribus. Additus praeterea est longus tractatus degeneribus.
Niccolò Perotti (1430-1480) Archbishop of Siponto
Category
Books
Date
1513 - 1517
Materials
Measurements
340 x 233 x 85 mm
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038139
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: Tanned calf skin Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supportsDate of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English [Cambridge] End Leaves: missing - shreds of white handmade laid paper in back jointStructure: English [Oxford]Edges: plain cut to show proof, apparently not coloured, polished Spine Lining: near flat with quadrant joints, medium paste lining, no linings End Bands: worked endbands with multiple tiedowns worked over twisted tanned cores, now mostly missingBookmark: NoneBoards: 8mm beech wood boards, cushion along external back edge, bevel on internal edge, very slight peripheral cushion H. T, Fe and shallow chamfer around internal H, T, Fe edges. All slips laced in, one with skin wedge. Covering: Full brown tanned calf, polished Tooling Spine: all panels framed and and blind-tooled with a single fillet or creaser - continuing into the cording dartsTooling Sides: blind tooled t/t/t fillet border at H, T and Fe with single blind-tooled fillet or creaser along joint; blind-tooled signed roll forming frame with ‘Oxford’ corners, with t/t/t fillets on each side, central panel fillet with vertical rolls, signed in center, diaper roll on each side; 2 single blind-tooled fillets on board edges and textblock creases on turn-ins Furniture: Pair of straps nailed to foredge of front board and bar-type catchplates on back.Enclosure: Two cotton tapes Binding Notes: 19th century bookplate inside front board of: R. E. Myddelton Chirk Castle (d.1949). At tail outer corner of titlepage: “William Duke”, written in a very shaky hand.
Bibliographic description
79,[1] leaves, 1436 columns, [1] leaf . fol.. Wormed. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 280, price 2s. Christie's, 21 June 2004, lot 606.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. manuscript inscription on title page: "Willm Duke". manuscript inscription on title page verso: "John forte"[?]. manuscript initials on printer's device on final leaf: "I.F.".. Binding: Sixteenth-century calf binding over wooden boards, blind-tooled to an intersecting panel design. Thin thick thin fillet border; two intersecting blind animal rolls (griffin, binder's mark with initials NS[? probably Nicholas Spierinck], dragon, monkey?) to form a frame; central panel consisting of two flanking quatrefoil roll patterns, with central animal roll. Clasp marks on both boards (clasps missing). Double blind fillet on board edges. Blind fillet panels and gilt title label on spine (cracked). manuscript fore-edge title: "Cornuecopia". Binding and boards wormed. Attributed to Nicholas Spierinck in J.B. Oldham's unpublished census.
Makers and roles
Niccolò Perotti (1430-1480) Archbishop of Siponto Martial (c.40-c.104) Marcellus Nonius (4th century) Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD) Sextus Pompeius Festus (fl.2nd century) Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515) Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515) Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529) Marcus Terentius Varro (116 – 27 BC) Cornelius Vitellius