Libellus Platine De honesta uoluptate ac ualitudine
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Type of record: Book
Title: Libellus Platine De honesta uoluptate ac ualitudine
Other titles: De honesta voluptate; De honesta uoluptate ac ualitudine; De honesta voluptate ac valitudine
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1499/PLA
Creator(s): Platina (1421-1481)
Additional creator(s): Benedetti, Giovanni Antonio de' (1492-1511) (Printer); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) (Binder); Gaisford, Thomas (1779-1855) (Former owner); Dunn, George (1864-1912) (Former owner); Hodgkin, John (1857-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Benedetti, Giovanni Antonio de'; Bedford, Francis; Gaisford, Thomas; Dunn, George; Hodgkin, John
Publisher: Impressum per Ioanne[m] antonium platonidem Benedictorum; Johannes Antonius de Benedictis
Publication city: Diligenterq[ue] Bononiae [Bologna]
Date(s): Mccccxcix. die uero.xi. mensis Maii. [11 May 1499]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [96] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35758
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007628769705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-m⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on m2v reads: Habes splendidissime lector uiri doctissimi Platinæ opusculum de obsoniis : de honesta uoluptate ac ualitudine diligenterq[ue] Bononiæ Impressum per Ioanne[m] antonium platonidem Benedictorum bibliopolam necno[n] ciuem Bononiensem sub Anno domini.Mccccxcix. die uero .xi. mensis Maii .Ioanne Bentiuolo fœliciter illustrante.
Printed with 29 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces wth guide-letters.
Woodcut printer's mark on leaf m2v with the monogram IB.
The final leaf m8 is unsigned and blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00766000.
Indexed in: BMC VI 852; Hain-Copinger *13056.
Features
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of red goatskin over pasteboard by Francis Bedford whose name is gold-tooled on the turn-in beneath the front pastedown. The upper and lower covers are decorated with a border and frame of blind-tooled and gold-tooled fillets with gold-tooled fleurons at each outer corner of the frame. The board edges and turn-ins are gold tooled with fillets and the book has gilt edges. The spine has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second, third and fourth panels are the words Platine De honesta de voluptate. Bononiae 1499. Apicius Ven. S.D.. The remaining panels are gold-tooled with fleurons inside a border of double fillets. The book has pastedowns of marbled paper featuring a combination of the curl and comb patterns in red, orange, blue and cream. Size: 218 x 160mm. Leaf size: 213 x 148mm.
Bound with one other publication. Volume contents: 1. Platina: De honesta voluptate ac valetudine, 1499. -- 2. Apicius: De re coquinaria, [1499-1500].
Provenance
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown bearing the name Thos. Gaisford. The book belonged to Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), English classical scholar and dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
Book label on the front pastedown: From the library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead.
Book label on the front pastedown: From the collection of cookery books formed by John Hodgkin, F.L.S. The book was acquired by him in the third portion of the sale of the library of George Dunn by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 22-29 November, 1917.
Notes in pencil manuscript on the recto of the first front flyleaf giving details of bibliographic references.
Pencil manuscript inscription in the hand of John Hodgkin on the recto of the back free endpaper noting acquisition details: Lot 359 in Geo Dunn Sale 28/11/1917 - JH.
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Profile: Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855)
Biography of Thomas Gaisford, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.