Accession number
PML 32264
Creator
Appianus, of Alexandria.
Object title
[Historia Romana (Partes I-II)].
Published
Venice : Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477.
Description
[132], [212] leaves ; 29.5 x 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1935.
Notes
Collation: Part I: a-i¹⁰ k-n⁸ o¹⁰: 132 leaves; Part II: a-c¹⁰ d¹² e-x¹⁰: 212 leaves, Part I, leaf a1 blank.
First colophon (Part I, leaf o10r): Impressum est hoc opus Venetiis per Bernardu[m] pictorem & Erhardum ratdolt de Augusta una cum Petro loslein de Langencen correctore ac socio. Laus Deo. .M.CCCC.LXXVII.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20.5 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: Part I, leaf a1 (blank).
PML copy with border on Part II, leaf a1r printed in red.
PML copy with Part II bound first.
Printed in type 1:109R.
Second colophon (Part II, leaf x10r): Impressum est hoc opus Venetiis per Bernardu[m] pictorem & Erhardum ratdolt de Augusta una cum Petro loslein de Langencen correctore ac socio. Laus Deo. .M.CCCC.LXXVII.
Some copies have borders printed in red (GW Anm.).
Title from ISTC.
Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius.
Woodcut initials and borders.
First colophon (Part I, leaf o10r): Impressum est hoc opus Venetiis per Bernardu[m] pictorem & Erhardum ratdolt de Augusta una cum Petro loslein de Langencen correctore ac socio. Laus Deo. .M.CCCC.LXXVII.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20.5 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: Part I, leaf a1 (blank).
PML copy with border on Part II, leaf a1r printed in red.
PML copy with Part II bound first.
Printed in type 1:109R.
Second colophon (Part II, leaf x10r): Impressum est hoc opus Venetiis per Bernardu[m] pictorem & Erhardum ratdolt de Augusta una cum Petro loslein de Langencen correctore ac socio. Laus Deo. .M.CCCC.LXXVII.
Some copies have borders printed in red (GW Anm.).
Title from ISTC.
Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius.
Woodcut initials and borders.
Binding
17th/18th-century laced vellum with fore-edge ("yapp") extensions (29.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; red edges. 2 ties, wanting.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Joannes Nicolaus Freigius T.F.N.N., signature, of Nuremberg (enrolled at Leiden Univ. 1602), 1605 (front fly leaf verso); unidentified signatures: Schmid, in black ink, and Bristhoff, in brown ink (front pastedown); unidentified bibliographic notes, in German (front fly leaf recto); Ernest Heineman (bookseller), Collection à vendre de monumens typographiques et autres ouvrages rares (1840), no. 145; William Stuart (1798-1874), inherited by his son, William Stuart (1825-1893), with Aldenham Abbey booklabel and Tempsford Hall booklabel (front pastedown), with shelf mark: E 5 Library, gilt crest (Fairbairn 10.2 or 10.3) with Nobilis Ira motto on binding, inscription "bought at Fletcher's [perhaps James Fletcher, Oxford?] 18th Dec. 1843. fr[om] 'M' " (front fly leaf recto); Stuart sale, Sotheby's, 17 June 1875; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr., Dec. 1935.
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