Pontano, Meteorum, Florence, Filippo I Giunta, 1514, nineteenth or twentieth-century vellum

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano. Quae in hoc enchyridio contineantur. Ioannis Iouiani Pontani Vrania seu de stellis libri quinque. Meteorum. Liber unus. De hortis Hesperidum. Libri duo. Eiusdem pompae septem, quib. titulus est Lepidina, necnon Meliseus, Maeon, Acon, carmina pastoralia. In calce uero index est eorum, quae in toto opere habeantur. Florence: Filippo I Giunta, June 1514

[Bound with:] Amorum libri II. De amore coniugali III. Tumulorum II, qui in superiore aliorum poematum editione desiderabantur. Lyrici I. Eridanorum II. Eclogae duae Coryle, & Quinquennius superioribus quas iterum additae. Calphurnii Siculi Eclogae VII. & Aurelii Nemesiani Eclogae IIII. Explicatio locorum omnium obscuriorum Pontani, authore Petro Summonte viro doctissimo. Index rerum, quae in his Pontani libris continentur. [Venice?: after 30 December 1522]

The second work is an Italian counterfeit of Aldine 1518 edition. The present work must have been issued after 30 December 1522, as the dedication of Marcus Abstemius to Tommaso Campeggi reads "Thomae Campegio episcopo feltrensi apostolicaeque sedis Venetiis legato" (Campeggi, appointed Bishop of Feltre on 1 June 1520, was given the nunciature in Venice on 30 December 1522). Abstemius is identified as Marco Bevilacqua of Forli, who in 1525 was working for Gregorio de Gregori and the printer-publisher Lorenzo Lorio.

8vo (155 x 98 mm). (1) Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸ &⁴: 188 leaves. Woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on final verso, early marginalia. (2) Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-x⁸ y⁴ (s8 and x5 blanks, lacking y4, a blank): 171 (of 172) leaves. (First two leaves of first work frayed, long tear to d8 of second work repaired with tape, soiling, staining, scattered foxing, dampstaining.)

binding: Late nineteenth or twentieth-century vellum (162 x 106 mm), two pairs of ties, flat spine, manuscript title to top edge. (Some staining, endleaves renewed.)

acquisition: Purchased from Libreria antiquaria P. Pampaloni, Florence, 1994. references: (1) Renouard XXXVII/51; Edit16 28730; USTC 850319; Decia & Delfiol p. 83, no, 51 (vol. I): (2) Cf. Renouard 318/4 ("Sans date, feuillets chiffrés. Copie des éditions Aldines de 1513 et 1518 , dont on reproduit jusqu'aux fautes typographiques")