Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii liber primus
Publisher: Andreas de Paltasichis
Published: 1477
Place of publication: Venice
Language: ita; lat; grc
Number of pages: 396
Other titles: Avli Gelii Noctivm Atticarvm commentarii liber primvs
Work titles: Noctes Atticae
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf a2r).

Colophon (leaf z6r): Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarvm commentarii finis: impressi Venetiis per Andream Iacobi Catharensem .M.CCCC.LXXVII. Andrea Vendrameno duce Venetiarum inclyto.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-x⁸ y-z⁶ A-B⁸ (a1 blank).

Initial spaces.

Table of contents, with chapter summaries: A1v-B8r.

Hain-Copinger, 7520*.

Proctor, 4423.

Goff, G-121.

GW, 10596.

BM 15th cent., V, 251 (IB.20609).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ig00121000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1744.

In Latin, with portions in Greek.

From the library of Joachim Gómez de la Cortina, marqués de Morante, with his arms stamped in gilt on covers and the Bibliotheca Cortina bookplate. MS ownership notation (17th-18th century) in upper margin of a2r, "De la libreria delle Collegio de S. Eugenio dela Comp. Jesu de [trimmed away]"; at foot of a2r: "del collo. de la Comp.a de Jss [ effaced], diolo el sr. d. Carlos Venero Cano[nigo?] de la Sta. Iglesia de [?]olo". MS note of William King Richardson, "Mensing sale Dec. 1936."

Initial on a2r illuminated in gold and colors; other initials in quires a-g added in brown; spaces in the rest of the book not filled in. Contemporary MS. notes in Latin on blank a1r and B8v.

Leaves numbered in MS (partly trimmed away in binding). Folio numbers have been added in MS to the list of chapter headings at end (quires A-B).

Bound in 19th-century maroon straight-grain morocco, covers and edges gilt; quire b misbound after c.