Accession number
PML 268
Object title
[Historia et descriptio urbis Romae].
Uniform title
Mirabilia Romae.
Published
Impressum Rome : per Stephanum Planck, Anno .M.ccccxcvi. die vero xiii. mensis Martii [14 March 1496].
Description
[56] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 14 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf G8r: Impressum Rome per magistru[m] Stephanu[m] Planck de Patavia Anno .M.ccccxcvi. die v[er]o xiii. mensis Martii. Sede[n]te Alexandro .vi. po[n]tifice maximo Anno eius quarto.
Printed in Plannck's types 2:88G and 7:132G.
Signatures: [A]-G⁸: 56 leaves, leaf [A]1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Recorded as 12° in Goff (Needham, Counting p.495), IGI and IDL record as 8°.
9 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.6 x 9.5 cm.
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.
Imprint from colophon, leaf G8r: Impressum Rome per magistru[m] Stephanu[m] Planck de Patavia Anno .M.ccccxcvi. die v[er]o xiii. mensis Martii. Sede[n]te Alexandro .vi. po[n]tifice maximo Anno eius quarto.
Printed in Plannck's types 2:88G and 7:132G.
Signatures: [A]-G⁸: 56 leaves, leaf [A]1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Recorded as 12° in Goff (Needham, Counting p.495), IGI and IDL record as 8°.
9 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.6 x 9.5 cm.
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (14 x 10.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by W. Pratt. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Mirabilia Romae vel potius
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Samuel Addington (b. ca. 1764), his sale, Sotheby's, 24 May 1886, to Inglis for £35.10; Cornelius Inglis, M.D. (1824-1907), inscriptions from the Sabrinae Corolla of Shrewsbury (front endleaf 1 recto) and shelf marks: 42/43 and Case 9 (front endleaves 1-2 recto), his sale, 11 June 1900, to Bennett; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 2 verso) and bibliographical notes: No. 316, 14/6/1900 and price code: rm/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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