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MERULA, Georgius (ca.1430-94). De antiquitate Vicecomitum. Edited by Alexander Minutianus. [Milan: Guillermus Le Signerre, December? 1499].
Super-chancery 2° (305 x 217 mm). Collation: \K.\ka6(1+χ2) a-z6 (\K.\ka1 blank, \K.\ka1+1r editor's address to Otto Visconti, \K.\ka2r author's address to Lodovico Sforza ("il Moro"), \K.\ka3r Defensio historiae, Periocha, \K.\ka4r index, a1r text, z6v blank). 146 leaves, a1-z5 foliated 1-137. 39 lines and headline, shoulder notes. Type 1:111R, Greek. 11- (opening text) and 5- to 6-line initial spaces. Early vellum over thin pasteboard, reusing 2 leaves from a 14th-century MS of a glossed legal text, rebacked with a vellum MS fragment from a large-format gradual or antiphonal, title lettered along bottom edge (lacking 4 pairs of ties).
Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations, many referring to Brixen; Henricus Treus(?), jurisconsult of Udine, 17th-century inscription on flyleaf.
FIRST EDITION. Merula was invited to Milan by Lodovico Sforza to write a history of the Visconti as part of Lodovico's strategy to gain imperial recognition for the Sforzas as dukes of Milan. By emphasizing his kinship with the Visconti, his maternal ancestors, Lodovico hoped to establish the legitimacy of the Sforzas as successors to the Visconti (see G. Ianziti, Humanistic Historiography under the Sforzas, 1988).
This book is sometimes erroneously dated after 1500 owing to the author's dedication to Otto Visconti, in which he refers to the second occupation of Milan by the French in April 1500. As noted in BMC (reprint), however, the two leaves containing the dedication consist of a single bifolium inserted into the first quire, no doubt added in light of the new political circumstances in Milan. In a letter by Girolamo Morone dated 31 December 1499 this work is mentioned as recently printed (BMC reprint). Guillermus Le Signerre and his brother were also active at this date in Saluzzo.
Folio a2r, line 3 has been corrected to "ANTIQUITATIS".
HC *11095=H 11096; BMC VI, 791 (IB. 26898); IGI 6375; Pellechet Ms. 7845; Goff M-499.
Super-chancery 2° (305 x 217 mm). Collation: \K.\ka6(1+χ2) a-z6 (\K.\ka1 blank, \K.\ka1+1r editor's address to Otto Visconti, \K.\ka2r author's address to Lodovico Sforza ("il Moro"), \K.\ka3r Defensio historiae, Periocha, \K.\ka4r index, a1r text, z6v blank). 146 leaves, a1-z5 foliated 1-137. 39 lines and headline, shoulder notes. Type 1:111R, Greek. 11- (opening text) and 5- to 6-line initial spaces. Early vellum over thin pasteboard, reusing 2 leaves from a 14th-century MS of a glossed legal text, rebacked with a vellum MS fragment from a large-format gradual or antiphonal, title lettered along bottom edge (lacking 4 pairs of ties).
Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations, many referring to Brixen; Henricus Treus(?), jurisconsult of Udine, 17th-century inscription on flyleaf.
FIRST EDITION. Merula was invited to Milan by Lodovico Sforza to write a history of the Visconti as part of Lodovico's strategy to gain imperial recognition for the Sforzas as dukes of Milan. By emphasizing his kinship with the Visconti, his maternal ancestors, Lodovico hoped to establish the legitimacy of the Sforzas as successors to the Visconti (see G. Ianziti, Humanistic Historiography under the Sforzas, 1988).
This book is sometimes erroneously dated after 1500 owing to the author's dedication to Otto Visconti, in which he refers to the second occupation of Milan by the French in April 1500. As noted in BMC (reprint), however, the two leaves containing the dedication consist of a single bifolium inserted into the first quire, no doubt added in light of the new political circumstances in Milan. In a letter by Girolamo Morone dated 31 December 1499 this work is mentioned as recently printed (BMC reprint). Guillermus Le Signerre and his brother were also active at this date in Saluzzo.
Folio a2r, line 3 has been corrected to "ANTIQUITATIS".
HC *11095=H 11096; BMC VI, 791 (IB. 26898); IGI 6375; Pellechet Ms. 7845; Goff M-499.