The Property of
MR. AND MRS. BERNARD AND ELLA MAZEL
ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiae. De summo bono. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 11 December 1493.
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ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiae. De summo bono. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 11 December 1493.
Super-Chancery folio, 301 x 204 mm. (11 7/8 x 8 in.), modern brown morocco, sides tooled in blind, spine in six compartments lettered in gilt, edges stained red, 2 small repairs to title-leaf, marginal repair to last leaf, lower margins of fols. aa2, bb4 and dd2-3 extended, just grazing last lines of text, bb4 with purple ink-stamp at foot of text block, a few small stains, occasional light foxing, a very few leaves browned.
Collation: aa8 bb-mm6 nn4 a-c6 d4. 100 leaves, aa2-nn3 foliated 2-75, a1-d3 foliated 1-21. Types: 1:74G, 2:130R, 80Gk, double column. 66 lines and headline, 14-, 6- and 4-line white-on-black foliated initials, 6 14-line black-on-white historiated or ornamental initials, full-page woodcut table of consanguinity on ff5v, numerous small woodcut symbols and diagrams in text, woodcut printer's device (Kristeller 281) at end.
H 9280*; Klebs 536.6; BMC V 442; CIBN I-71; Polain (B) 2138; IGI 5407; Sander 3527; Goff I-186 (listing this copy).
Provenance: Scattered early marginalia (a few cropped or obscured in gutters) -- Eighteenth-century ink-stamp on title: "Libra S. Francisci..." -- Effaced nineteenth-century price inscription on title, effaced purple ink-stamp on verso (illegible) -- (from Scientific Library Service, 1972).
Super-Chancery folio, 301 x 204 mm. (11 7/8 x 8 in.), modern brown morocco, sides tooled in blind, spine in six compartments lettered in gilt, edges stained red, 2 small repairs to title-leaf, marginal repair to last leaf, lower margins of fols. aa2, bb4 and dd2-3 extended, just grazing last lines of text, bb4 with purple ink-stamp at foot of text block, a few small stains, occasional light foxing, a very few leaves browned.
Collation: aa8 bb-mm6 nn4 a-c6 d4. 100 leaves, aa2-nn3 foliated 2-75, a1-d3 foliated 1-21. Types: 1:74G, 2:130R, 80Gk, double column. 66 lines and headline, 14-, 6- and 4-line white-on-black foliated initials, 6 14-line black-on-white historiated or ornamental initials, full-page woodcut table of consanguinity on ff5v, numerous small woodcut symbols and diagrams in text, woodcut printer's device (Kristeller 281) at end.
H 9280*; Klebs 536.6; BMC V 442; CIBN I-71; Polain (B) 2138; IGI 5407; Sander 3527; Goff I-186 (listing this copy).
Provenance: Scattered early marginalia (a few cropped or obscured in gutters) -- Eighteenth-century ink-stamp on title: "Libra S. Francisci..." -- Effaced nineteenth-century price inscription on title, effaced purple ink-stamp on verso (illegible) -- (from Scientific Library Service, 1972).