Bucoliche elegantissimanente /
Virgil.
Pulci, Bernardo,1438-1488.
Arsochi, Francesco de.
Benivieni, Girolamo,1453-1542.
Buoninsegni, Jacopo Fiorino de'.
Miscomini, Antonio,active 1476-1494,printer.
Pinelli, Maffeo,1736-1785,former owner.StEdNL
Roscoe, William,1753-1831,former owner.StEdNL
Impresse in Firenze : per Maestro Antonio Mischomini,
anno M.CCCC.LXXXXIIII. adi. XVIIII. del mese d Aprile. [19 April 1494]
Imprint from colophon.
The Italian version of Bernardo Pulci. With other collections of pastorals.
Signatures: a-l⁸, m⁶, n⁴.
30 lines to a page; type 1 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
Leaf 1b: Prefatione di Bernardo Pulci nella Bucolica di Virgilio. Leaf 5a: Prima egloga della bucolica di Virgilio per Bernardo Pulci. Ends leaf 98b: Finite sono lequattro Buccoliche sopradecte. Con una elegia della morte di Cosimo. Colophon, leaf 98b, l. 14: Impresse in Firenze per Maestro Antonio Mischomini Anno M. CCCC. LXXXXIIII. ADI. XVIIII Delmese Daprile. (printer's mark).
Woodcut on title page.
Printer's device below colophon.
BM Inc.
ISTC
Poynter
St.
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Ink inscription on recto of front flyleaf by Roscoe indicating this book was lot 2550 in the Pinelli sale. Ink inscription on recto of front free endpaper: From Mr Roscoe's Colln. where it sold for 4.3.0. Note in Roscoe's hand in Italian on verso of front free endpaper with details of the book. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
18th-century brown leather with marbled endpapers.
Italy Florence.