Accession number
PML 315
Creator
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Object title
Historia rerum ubique gestarum.
Published
Venice : Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1477.
Description
[106] leaves ; 29.5 x 21 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): PII .II. PONTIFICIS MAXIMI. HISTORIA RERUM UBIQUE GESTARUM. CUM LOCORUM DESCRIPTIONE NON FINITA ASIA MINOR INCIPIT.
Colophon (leaf l10r): Pii .ii. Ponti. maximi histori[a]e rerum ubiq[ue] gestaru[m] prima pars finitur: & impressioni Venetiis dedita: per Johannem de colonia sociumq[ue] eius Johannem manthen de Gherretzem anno millesimo:cccclxxvii.
Printed in type 8*:109R.
Collation: a-f¹⁰ g-h⁸ i-l¹⁰: 106 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.1 x 20.1 cm.
Colophon (leaf l10r): Pii .ii. Ponti. maximi histori[a]e rerum ubiq[ue] gestaru[m] prima pars finitur: & impressioni Venetiis dedita: per Johannem de colonia sociumq[ue] eius Johannem manthen de Gherretzem anno millesimo:cccclxxvii.
Printed in type 8*:109R.
Collation: a-f¹⁰ g-h⁸ i-l¹⁰: 106 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.1 x 20.1 cm.
Binding
18th-century English calf over paper boards (29.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 6 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Italian white vine illuminated initial (leaf a2r), alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: Moderate contemporary marginal notations throughout text.
Provenance
Pavia, Jesuit College, inscription: "Collegii Papiensis Soc. Jesu" (leaf a2r); unidentified shelf marks/inscriptions: "19 s/6/5145/6 D" and "Y5_8" (front fly leaf verso); [doubtful: Richard Mead (1673-1754); his sales, Baker, 18 Nov. 1754 and 7 Apr. 1755 -- not in catalogue]; Robert Hoblyn (1710-1756); his sale, Baker & Leigh, 2 March 1778, to Wodhull; Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscriptions, 26 March 1778 and 24 June 1795 (front and rear fly leaves rectos), Wodhull left his collection to his sister-in-law Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 28 for £1.10.0; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: s/wm/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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