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De vita excellentium.

Accession number
PML 287
Creator
Nepos, Cornelius.
Object title

De vita excellentium.

Published

Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 8 March 1471.

Description

[54] leaves ; 26 x 19 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): AEMILII PROBI VIRI CLARISSIMI DE VITA EXCELLENTIUM LIBER INCIPIT FELICITER.
Colophon (leaf [6]/7r): PROBI AEMILII DE VIRORUM EXCELLENTIUM VITA PER .M. NICOLAUM JENSON VENETIIS OPUS FOELICITER IMPRESSUM EST ANNO A CHRISTI INCARNATIONE. M.CCCC.LXXI. VIII. IDUS MARTIAS.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰/⁸]: 54 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [6]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.4 x 18.6 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
18th/19th-century vellum over paper boards (26 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
De vita illustrium virorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: A few initials near end added with a stamped and hand colored woodcut, the majority are unrealized. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations sporadically through the text. Contemporary inscription regarding the Goths and Langobards from Flavius Blondus (leaf [6]/8r).
Provenance
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) price code: d/m/m +___ (front pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department