Platynae De honesta voluptate: et valitudine ad amplissimum ac Doctissimum.D.B. Roverllam.S.Clementis praesbiterum cardinalem liber primus
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Type of record: Book
Title: Platynae De honesta voluptate: et valitudine ad amplissimum ac Doctissimum.D.B. Roverllam.S.Clementis praesbiterum cardinalem liber primus
Other titles: De honesta voluptate; De honesta voluptate, et valetudine; De honesta uoluptate: et ualitudine; De Honesta Volvptate: Et Valitvdine
Classmark: Strong Room for. fol. 1475/PLA
Creator(s): Platina (1421-1481)
Additional creator(s): Laurentius de Aquila (Printer); Umber, Sibylinus (Printer)
Related people: Laurentius; Umber, Sibylinus
Publisher: Labore & diligentia Laurentii Presbyteri [de] Aquila:nec no[n] Sibyllini Vmbri Duce inclyto Petro Mocenico; Laurentius de Aquila and Sibylinus Umber
Publication city: Impressum Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Idibus Iuniis Mcccclxxv. [13 June 1475]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [94] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35761
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007633979705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [*⁴ a¹⁰ b-l⁸]
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on leaf [4v] reads: Viri doctissimi Platynæ opusculum de obsoniis ac honesta voluptate: impressum Venetiis: Labore & diligentia Laurentii Presbyteri [de] Aquila:nec no[n] Sibyllini Vmbri Duce inclyto Petro Mocenico, Idibus Iuniis [13 June] Mcccclxxv.
A variant issue omits printers' names from colophon.
At end: Platynae De obsoniis lib. fin.
Printed with 32 lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00762000.
Indexed in: Hain 13051.
Features
Inscription in pencil manuscript on the recto of the front free endpaper: N155D Platina 1550 II 60 [xx, with one character above the other] (13).
Very occasional marginal annotations and manicules in black ink manuscript.
Leaf numbers supplied in pencil manuscript at the bottom left of rectos.
Major initials supplied in red ink manuscript, now much faded, up to leaf [9], thereafter left blank.
Leaf [46] wrongly bound between leaves [85] and [86]; leaf [67] bound after leaf [88]; leaf [89] bound between leaves [30] and [31].
Wanting leaves [1-4], [66], and [90-94].
The final leaf of text in this copy is supplied in ink manuscript.
This copy is missing Platynae De obsoniis lib. fin.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century half binding of vellum and decorative blue and red paste paper over pasteboard. Written directly onto the smooth spine in black ink manuscript are the words: Platinæ De honesta volvptate. Saec. XV. Size 290 x 215mm. Leaf size: 281 x 202mm.
Provenance
On the front pastedown are the remains of a cutting from a sale catalogue.
Access and usage
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