Accession number
PML 19614
Creator
Dionysius, of Halicarnassus.
Object title
Dionysii Halicarnasei Originum siue antiquitatum romanarum.
Published
Impressum Taruisii : Per Bernardinum Celerium de Luere, anno Chr. nati. 1480 bissexto kl. Martias [24 February].
Description
[600] pages (pages [1-2], [600] blank) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1913.
Notes
Title from caption (leaf [1]/4r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [38]/6r): LAMPVS BIRAGVS FLOR. IMPRESSVM TARVISII PER BERNARDINVM CELERIVM DE LVERE. ANNO CHR. NATI. .M.CCCC.LXXX. BISSEXTO KL. MARTIAS IOANNE MOCENIGO VENETORVM DVCE INCLYTO.
The date in the colophon reads "bissexto kl. Martias," which should indicate 24 Feb. (F.R. Goff in BSA 24 (1940) 59 n.22).
Printed in Celerius's type 1:113R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-7⁸ 8-9⁶ 10-37⁸ 38⁶]: 300 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. Printed catchwords.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Known in at least 6 issues, frequently mixed: see GW.
The translator Lampo (or Lampugnino) Birago is often confused with Lapo da Castiglionchio, and so called Florentinus in the editions (M. Miglio in DBI s.v. Birago).
Text preceded on leaves [1]/2r-3r by a dedicatory letter to Pope Paul II by Lampo Birago, the translator.
Initial spaces, with guide-letters.
In this issue the colophon is printed in capitals; in an earlier issue it is printed in capitals & lower case with the date misprinted "icccclxxx"; cf. BMC & GW for other minor press variants.
In some copies, "DION. HALICARNA." is printed on leaf 1₁r.
PML copy is issue c.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [38]/6r): LAMPVS BIRAGVS FLOR. IMPRESSVM TARVISII PER BERNARDINVM CELERIVM DE LVERE. ANNO CHR. NATI. .M.CCCC.LXXX. BISSEXTO KL. MARTIAS IOANNE MOCENIGO VENETORVM DVCE INCLYTO.
The date in the colophon reads "bissexto kl. Martias," which should indicate 24 Feb. (F.R. Goff in BSA 24 (1940) 59 n.22).
Printed in Celerius's type 1:113R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-7⁸ 8-9⁶ 10-37⁸ 38⁶]: 300 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. Printed catchwords.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Known in at least 6 issues, frequently mixed: see GW.
The translator Lampo (or Lampugnino) Birago is often confused with Lapo da Castiglionchio, and so called Florentinus in the editions (M. Miglio in DBI s.v. Birago).
Text preceded on leaves [1]/2r-3r by a dedicatory letter to Pope Paul II by Lampo Birago, the translator.
Initial spaces, with guide-letters.
In this issue the colophon is printed in capitals; in an earlier issue it is printed in capitals & lower case with the date misprinted "icccclxxx"; cf. BMC & GW for other minor press variants.
In some copies, "DION. HALICARNA." is printed on leaf 1₁r.
PML copy is issue c.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (30.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Dionysii Halicarnasei Originvm sive antiqvitatvm romanarvm
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (washed/faded). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript title on bottom edge.
Provenance
Unidentified stamps, washed/faded (leaf [1]/2r); John Anstruther (1718-1799), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf verso); Patrick Chalmers (1802-1854), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); unidentified (perhaps Anstruther or Chalmers?) shelf mark: B. 2. 7. (rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Giuseppe Martini, unidentified catalogue, no. 73; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Martini, Feb. 1913.
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