![MARULLUS, Michael Tarchaniota (d. 1500). Hymni naturales et Epigrammata. Florence: Societas Colubris (Compagnia del Drago), A.M.A. [Antonio Tubini, Andrea Ghirlandi and another partner], 26th November 1497.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09878_0419_000(033328).jpg?w=1)
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MARULLUS, Michael Tarchaniota (d. 1500). Hymni naturales et Epigrammata. Florence: Societas Colubris (Compagnia del Drago), A.M.A. [Antonio Tubini, Andrea Ghirlandi and another partner], 26th November 1497.
Chancery 4o (202 x 128mm). Collation: a-g8 (a1r title, verso blank, a2r epigrams); h-m8 (h1r hymns, m6r colophon, verso blank, m7r-8r errata to both works, m8v blank). 96 leaves. Roman type 1:110 (text), Greek types from two Florentine founts: De Alopa 5:111 and Ricardinus 1:121 (scattered words), some initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Marginal worming in the first 10 leaves.)
VENETIAN BINDING: contemporary gold-tooled maroon goatskin, over pasteboard, the sides panelled with blind fillets, border formed by repeated gilt impressions of an arabesque tool, gilt arabesque ornament in the center, small leaf-tools and flower tool in blind, gilt and gauffered edges, traces of four pairs of ties, original headbands, (spine and corners restored). Quarter-morocco box. Provenance: manuscript emendations made by a contemporary Italian owner from the list of errata -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 4 February 1987.
FIRST EDITIONS of the hymns and books 3 and 4 of the epigrams. The epigrams of books 1 and 2 were first published by Eucharius Silber at Rome in the 1480s (IGI 6262). The author dedicated the epigrams to his patron, Lorenzo de' Medici. Some are addressed to the beautiful and learned Alessandra Scala, for whose affections he successfully vied against Politian. He wrote his hymns in imitation of Lucretius. Marullus was born at Constantinople; following its capture by the Turks in 1453, he went to Italy where he became a pupil of Pontanus. Ariosto mentions him in Orlando Furioso (xxxvii 8). He drowned in the river Cecina, near Volterra.
The Marullus is apparently the first production of the Dragon Press. For the shop's connection with the partnership of Tubini, Ghirlandi and two others, see BMC VI, p. xix. FINE COPY. HC *10880; BMC VI, 691; IGI 6263; BSB M-243; Goff M-342.
Chancery 4o (202 x 128mm). Collation: a-g8 (a1r title, verso blank, a2r epigrams); h-m8 (h1r hymns, m6r colophon, verso blank, m7r-8r errata to both works, m8v blank). 96 leaves. Roman type 1:110 (text), Greek types from two Florentine founts: De Alopa 5:111 and Ricardinus 1:121 (scattered words), some initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Marginal worming in the first 10 leaves.)
VENETIAN BINDING: contemporary gold-tooled maroon goatskin, over pasteboard, the sides panelled with blind fillets, border formed by repeated gilt impressions of an arabesque tool, gilt arabesque ornament in the center, small leaf-tools and flower tool in blind, gilt and gauffered edges, traces of four pairs of ties, original headbands, (spine and corners restored). Quarter-morocco box. Provenance: manuscript emendations made by a contemporary Italian owner from the list of errata -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 4 February 1987.
FIRST EDITIONS of the hymns and books 3 and 4 of the epigrams. The epigrams of books 1 and 2 were first published by Eucharius Silber at Rome in the 1480s (IGI 6262). The author dedicated the epigrams to his patron, Lorenzo de' Medici. Some are addressed to the beautiful and learned Alessandra Scala, for whose affections he successfully vied against Politian. He wrote his hymns in imitation of Lucretius. Marullus was born at Constantinople; following its capture by the Turks in 1453, he went to Italy where he became a pupil of Pontanus. Ariosto mentions him in Orlando Furioso (xxxvii 8). He drowned in the river Cecina, near Volterra.
The Marullus is apparently the first production of the Dragon Press. For the shop's connection with the partnership of Tubini, Ghirlandi and two others, see BMC VI, p. xix. FINE COPY. HC *10880; BMC VI, 691; IGI 6263; BSB M-243; Goff M-342.