Accession number
PML 16329
Creator
Appianus, of Alexandria, author.
Object title
Apianvs Alexandrinvs. De bellis civilibvs.
Published
Impressum Regii : per Franciscum de Mazalibus, Anno Domini .M.CCCC.LXXXXIIII. Die .XXII. Mensis Octobris [22 October 1494].
Description
[136] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r (author's name precedes title).
Imprint from colophon, leaf r7r, reads: "Impressum Regii per Franciscum de Mazalibus Anno Domini .M.CCCC.LXXXXIIII. Die .XXII. Mensis Octobris."
Printed in Mazalibus's type 1:110R.
Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-r⁸: 136 leaves, leaf r8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Comprises the 5 books of De bellis civilibus (Historia Romana 13-17), followed by HR 9b (Illyrians) and HR 4 (Celts, a fragmentary text).
"Reprinted from the edition of Maler and Ratdolt, Venice, 1477 and completed by the edition of the Historia romana reprinted from the same archetype by De Pasqualibus at Scandiano in January, 1495"--British Museum catalogue. The two parts were printed from the same type.
Latin translation by Pier Candido Decembrio.
Generally 42 lines, with headline and printed marginalia, 232 (240) x 131 (160) mm. Capital spaces, mostly with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 19.2 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r7r, reads: "Impressum Regii per Franciscum de Mazalibus Anno Domini .M.CCCC.LXXXXIIII. Die .XXII. Mensis Octobris."
Printed in Mazalibus's type 1:110R.
Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-r⁸: 136 leaves, leaf r8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Comprises the 5 books of De bellis civilibus (Historia Romana 13-17), followed by HR 9b (Illyrians) and HR 4 (Celts, a fragmentary text).
"Reprinted from the edition of Maler and Ratdolt, Venice, 1477 and completed by the edition of the Historia romana reprinted from the same archetype by De Pasqualibus at Scandiano in January, 1495"--British Museum catalogue. The two parts were printed from the same type.
Latin translation by Pier Candido Decembrio.
Generally 42 lines, with headline and printed marginalia, 232 (240) x 131 (160) mm. Capital spaces, mostly with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 19.2 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over heavy paper boards (30 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Apianus Alexandrinus. De bellis civilibus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate (front pastedown), purchased from Longmans for £8.8.0 in 1829; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 120; unidentified English sale catalogue description, mentioning Longmans but not Syston Park; Henry Martin Gibbs (1850-1928), of Barrow Court (Somerset), armorial bookplate, dated 1891 (front pastedown) and armorial added to binding; Pierpont Morgan (1843-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Oct. 1909.
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