Prouerbiorum libellus
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 387, item 1
Publisher: Per magistru[m] Christophorum de Pe[n]sis
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Impressum Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Latin Proverbs; Latin Epigrams
Other titles: Proverbiorvm libellvs
Notes: Imprint from colophon (leaf i5v).

First edition.

Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁶ (i6 blank).

Initial spaces, with guide-letters; woodcut initial on a4r.

Contains some short passages in Greek.

Includes a 10-year privilege (leaf l5v) for printing this work.

Hain-Copinger, 16009*

Proctor, 5243

Goff, V-147

BM 15th cent., V, 471 (IA.23500)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), iv00147000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2390.

Gift; John Bartlett; 1 February 1893; Prov 190.9.

Autograph "R A Wight" on front flyleaf; from the library of Anselm van den Bogaerde, with his booklabel.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in 19th-century half brown calf and marbled boards; blank leaf wanting.