Details

Other Title:

Goff title: Driadeo

Fingerprint:

tami tero iaho &sdo (C) 1492 (Q)

Form/Genre:

Incunabula.

Place of Publication:

Italy Venice.

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).
Imprint supplied from ISTC, following Hillard. Goff suggests: Florence? : s.n., ca. 1489.
Chancery quarto, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf a3r: 40 lines to a full column; area of text: 151 x 117 mm.; col. width: 57 mm. Printed initial on leaf a2r; initial spaces elsewhere. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Large woodcut title illustration (135 x 95 mm.) of two scholars: one, wearing a turban and holding in his right hand a stick from which depends a geometric figure, looks out a second-story window whose edge is covered by a fringed cloth and with his left hand indicates a banderole which reads: ALTIOR IN CVBVIT ANIMe SVB IMAGINE MVNDI; the other sits in a walled garden at a desk before which lies a rabbit(?), holding in his left hand a pair of compasses and in his right a prism(?) onto which a ray of sunlight falls. Beyond the garden wall is a hilly landscape with a town; the sun shines from the upper right corner of the illustration. Cf. Sander 5998, 3219. "Gravure du titre probablement due même artiste que celles de Catharina Senensis, GW 6225, Essling 736, impr. par Capcasa le 17 Mai 1494."--Hillard.
Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁴.
Explicit of text (leaf d4r): Qui finisce il Driadeo compliato per Luca pulci Al magnifico Lorenzo de Medici. Finis.

Local notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: [Bueve de Hanstone. Italian.] [Venice : Maximus de Butricis, 18 June 1491] (Goff B-1276)
Leaf size: 183 x 141 mm.
Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark(?) ("No 693.") in brown ink and ms. bibliographical notes in pencil at head of blank leaf preceding title leaf.
Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.
Penn Libraries copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("AKlein 1807") of A. Klein in brown ink at foot of title leaf.
Penn Libraries copy bound in one quarter red morocco over brown cloth; 5 raised bands on spine; author's surname ("PULCI") and brief title ("IL DRIADEO") of first work in volume stamped in gold on spine; imprint date of second work in volume ("1491") stamped in gold at foot of spine.
Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at all margins (closely cropped at head margin).

Penn Provenance:

Klein, A. (autograph)

Penn Chronology:

1492-1495? (ca.)
1489 (ca.)

Cited in:

Goff P-1112
Hillard, D. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, VI, 1706
ISTC ip01112000

Contributor:

Capcasa, Matteo, printer.
Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

249492121