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Historia Fiorentina.

Accession number
PML 22212
Creator
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Object title

Historia Fiorentina.

Published

Venice : Jacobus Rubeus, 12 February 1476.

Description

[218] leaves ; 34.5 x 24 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Mr. J.S. Morgan, 1923.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): PROHEMIO DI DONATO ACCIAIOLI NELLA HISTORIA FIORENTINA TRADUCTO PER Lui In Vulgare Alliexcellentissimi Signori Priori Di Liberta Et Gonfaloniere Di Giustitia Del Popolo Fiorentino.
Colophon (leaf x10r): FINE Delduodecimo & ultimo libro della historia del Popolo Fiorentino composta da Messer Lionardo aretino in latino: Et tradocta i[n] lingua tosca da Donato Acciaioli a di .xxviii. dagosto: M ccclxxiii. Impresso a Vinegia perlo diligente huomo Maestro Jacomo de Rossi di natione Gallo: Nellanno del Mcccclxxvi. a di xxi. di Febraio: Regnante lo inclyto Principe Messer Piero Mozenico.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: a-k¹⁰ kk⁶ l-p¹⁰ q¹² r-x¹⁰: 218 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Donatus Acciaiolus.
Often found with Poggius Florentinus, Historia Fiorentina (Goff P873).
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 23 cm.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled black morocco over heavy paper boards (34.5 x 24 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by St. James's of Bond Street, London (with ticket on front pastedown). Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Historiae Florentini populi [Italian]
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelf mark: 2.H. (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 124; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from V.A. Heck of Vienna through Giuseppe Martini by Mr. Junius Spencer Morgan, 1923.
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Department