[Platina De honesta voluptate & valitudine vulgare].

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Platina, 1421-1481, author.
Uniform title:De honesta voluptate. Italian
Imprint:[Venice] : [Zorzo di Ruschoni], [15 February 1501]
Description:[100] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Language:Italian
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2969819
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
Other authors / contributors:Rusconi, Giorgio, active 1500-1521, printer.
Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
Manzoni, Giacomo, 1816-1889, former owner.
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.
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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