Ammianus Marcellinus a Mariangel Accursio mendis quinque millibus purgatus & libris quinque auctus ultimis, nunc primum ab eodem inuentis.

Accession number: 
PML 42124.1
Author: 
Ammianus Marcellinus.
Published: 
Augustae Vindelicorum : In aedibus Silvani Otmar, mense Maio M.D.XXXIII [May 1533].
Credit: 
Purchased in 1950.
Description: 
[4], 306, [2] p. ; 34 cm. (folio)
Notes: 

1st ed. of Books 27-31.
Imprint from colophon.
Page [2] at end blank.
Errata list: p. [1] at end.

Binding: 
Contemporary blind- and gilt-tooled brown calf over paper boards, with gilt and gauffered edges, bound in Augsburg by the "Master of Hieronymus Wolff" (active 1531-1537, EBDB w004486). 2 green silk ties.
Provenance: 
Joachim von Ortenburg (1530-1600), inscription: "Eil mitt weil," 1565 (front pastedown), inherited by his son, Anton von Ortenburg (1550-1573), inscription: "Lente Festina" and: "A[nton] C[omes] I[n] O[rtenberg] 1567" (leaf A1r of Marcellinus), on the Ortenburg library, see Miller, Reichsgraf Joachim von Ortenburg und seine Bücher; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.Ph. Goldschmidt, Dec. 1950.
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