Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii liber primus

Signatures: a¹° b-x⁸ y-z⁶ A-B⁸ (a1=blank). Chancery folio; a4 recto: 36 lines, 199 x 124 mm; type: 112R, 112Gk(a); initial spaces without guide letters. Title from incipit at head of a2 recto Date and imprint from colophon (z6 recto): Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii finis. Impressi Venetiis per Andream Iacobi Catharensem. M.CCCC.LXXVII. Andrea Vendrameno duce Venetiarum inclyto Preceding the colophon is a printed note by Johannes Andrea de Bussis on the missing book 8, beginning "Volumina co[m]me[n]tarior[um] ad hu[n]c diem uiginti ia[m] facta su[n]t ..." Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ig00121000 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry G121 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, vol. V, page 251 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 10596 COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.62 FOLIO imperfect: leaf a1 (blank) wanting. Two-line initials rubricated in alternating red and blue. Larger initials in interlocking red and blue. Manuscript guide letters. Capital strokes in yellow. Large initial on a2 recto illuminated. Leaf dimensions: 295 x 197 mm. PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.62 FOLIO with bookplate of the BPL Benton Fund and bookplate of Frederick Spiegelberg. Armorial bookplate of Victor Morin on recto of front free endpaper. Auctioneer's description and unidentified, effaced armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Two early ownership inscriptions of the Augustinians at Angers (France) on a2 recto: Pro co[n]uentu andegaue[n]si ordinis fr[atru]m [...]" and "Fratribus Augustinianis Andegauensibus," with stenciled shelf mark ("M 20"). Early/contemporary marginalia, in various hands, throughout. Purchased Nov. 1937. BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.62 FOLIO bound in ca. 17th-/18th-century red goatskin paneled in triple-ruled gilt. Armorial super-ex-libris of Henri-Auguste de Loménie, comte de Brien