Accession number
PML 78845
Creator
Diodorus, Siculus.
Object title
Diodorus Siculus.
Published
Venetiis impraessum : P[er] Magistru[m] Ioan[n]em de Cereto de Tridino alias Tacuinu[m], anno salutis dominice M.cccc.Lxxxxvi. xii. Kalen. Octobris [20 September 1496]
Description
[1], LXXVI, [1] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Robinson in memory of Alice Robinson, 1986.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf n5v).
Signatures: a-n⁶: 78 leaves. Leaves a2-3 signed 'a', 'aii' respectively.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
Translated by Poggio Bracciolini; edited by Bartholomaeus Merula.
Errors in foliation: leaves LVIII and LXXII misnumbered LIX and LXXIII respectively.
Woodcut printer's device (Husung 220) on leaf n6r; white-on-black initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.2 x 21.4 cm.
Imprint from colophon (leaf n5v).
Signatures: a-n⁶: 78 leaves. Leaves a2-3 signed 'a', 'aii' respectively.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
Translated by Poggio Bracciolini; edited by Bartholomaeus Merula.
Errors in foliation: leaves LVIII and LXXII misnumbered LIX and LXXIII respectively.
Woodcut printer's device (Husung 220) on leaf n6r; white-on-black initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.2 x 21.4 cm.
Binding
Contemporary French (southern, Lyon?) blind-tooled goat (or calf) over paste paper boards (32.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. 4 ties, missing. Contemporary manuscript title label on rear board: "Paul[us] Orosius. Dorus Siculus."
Provenance
Former Sammelband with manuscript title on bottom edge partly visible, "III°" on leaf a1r suggests was third item with an edition of Orosius (Goff O-100?); Laurence Witten, cat. 13, no. 16; Herbert Robinson (1916-2010); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Herbert Robinson in memory of Alice Robinson, 1986.
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