Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Di Platina De la honesta uoluptate & ualitudine : ad lo amplissimo & doctissimo Signore B. Rouerella di Sancto Cleme[n]te prete cardinale, libro primo. Di Platina De la honesta voluptate et valitudine De la honesta uoluptate & ualitudine
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Other authors / contributors: | Rusconi, Giorgio, active 1500-1521, printer.
Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
Manzoni, Giacomo, 1816-1889, former owner.
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Provenance: | Bookplate: Ex libris Jacobj Manzoni. Former owners' manuscript annotations in at least 2 hands; partially trimmed on fore edge. Laid in: 1 sheet with manuscript notes relating to the former owner's attempts to date the publication and track down a complete copy to have a copy made of the missing colophon; one sheet signed H.C. Levis. Binding: Vellum over boards.
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Notes: | Title and publication information from Notaker. Incipit, leaf [5]: Di Platina De la honesta uoluptate & ualitudine, ad Io amplissimo & doctissimo Signore B. Rouerella di Sancto Cleme[n]te prete cardinale, libro primo. Colophon [from Notaker]: Qui finisse Platina di li obsonii stampata in Venetia. Per Maestro Zorzo di Ruschoni Milanese, nel a[n]no del Signore M.D.I. adi. xv. feuraro. Date of printing incorrectly given as 1500 in Vehling. Signatures: A⁴ a-m⁸; [$4 signed (-A3, A4; leaf A2 missigned 'A', b1 missigned 'c')]. 'Tauola' printed in 2 columns; 32 lines; some guide letters; woodcut initials. University of Chicago Library's copy imperfect: lacking title page; colophon cut out. Notaker, H. Printed cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700, entry 901.6 Vehling, J.D. Platina and the rebirth of man, page 128 (16)
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