Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
30 January 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/438
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/36 page 17
    85 86 87 88 89 90 OT 92 Le SIZES MIXED Perottus. Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae commentarii dili- gentissime recogniti atqe archetypo emendati, italic letter, title with woodcut border, binding of early MS., Thusculani apud Benacum, in Aedibus Paganini, 1522—Datus (Augus- tinus) Senensis, Libellus de Eloquentia, wnbownd, Paris, S.A. et N. (2) Petrarca (Franciscus) Opera Latina, roman letter, long lines, 49 and 55 to a page (390 Il. including last blank), initials in red; rubricated, one leaf repaired, some margins damaged, stained, wants | leaf, leather, stamped in blind, over oak boards (damaged) ; leaf of early MS. with musical notation at each end folio. Impressis Basileae per Magistrum Ioannem de Amerbach . . . 1496 Petrarca (Franciscus) De Vita Solitaria, roman letter, long lines, 36 to a page, 62 Il. with signatures, 1 leaf loose |Hain 12797 ; Proctor 6039], vellum folio. Impressum Mediolani per Magistrum Uldericu Scinzenzeler anno domini M.CCCCLXXXXVIII [1498 ] Pistolesi (Erasmo) The Antiquities of Herculaneum and Pompei, plates, 2 vol. boards, and others ; not subject to return (4) Plato. Opera, Manuscript on vellum (Graece), 168 Il. (8in. by Alin.), long lines, 27 to a page, headings in gold, some marginal notes ; probably written by a Greek scribe in Italy about 1450, emperfect, boards 8vo. XV CENT. Plautus (M. Accius) Comoediae VIII, Manuscript on paper, 87 Ul., long lines, 38 to a page, headings in red, russia leather ; from the Labrary of H. Drury folio. XV CENT. poetis scripsit.”’ Nigidius was a celebrated Roman scholar and contemporary of Cicero. Pomponius Mela. De Cosmographia, etc., Manuscript on paper, 76 Ul., long lines, 32 to a page, headings in red, boards 4to. XV CENT. Priscianus. Opera Grammatica, Manuscript on vellum, 211 Ul (S4in. by 5in.), long lines, 33 to a page, ornamental initials painted in various colours, rubricated, early binding of leather
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