Title from incipit on leaf a2 recto; imprint from colophon on leaf m7 recto.
Signatures: a-m8.
Imperfect copy: leaves a1 and m8 [both blanks?] lacking.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... Gift of Bern Dibner.
Provenance stamp: F. Liechtenstein. Bibliothek.
Leaf a2 recto has a richly colored illuminated manuscript border, done in a late Renaissance style.
Some ms. notes in margins.
Bound in full marbled calf; gold-tooled spine and covers; raised bands; silk-covered endpapers; all edges gilt; in protective box.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
PA6482 .A2 1486
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIL00333000-B
L-0333
Author:
Lucretius Carus, Titus
Short
Title:
De rerum natura
(1495)
Title:
T. Lucreti Cari poetae philosophici antiquissimi De rerum natura liber primus [-sextus] ...
Imprint:
Venice: per Theodorum de Ragazonibus de Asula dictum Bresanu[m], die iiii Septembris anno domini 1495.
Comments
and Notes:
Title from incipit on leaf a2 recto; imprint from colophon on leaf q10 recto.
Half-title (a1 recto): Lucretius.
Signatures: a-p8 q10.
Faded Latin ms. writing (for a Life of Lucretius?) on leaf a1 recto; ms. notes in margins scattered throughout.
Bound in half vellum over boards; author and title inked on spine.
Bookplate: Olive Percival.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... Gift of Bern Dibner.