[Commentarii].

Accession number:

PML 22228

Author:

Caesar, Julius.

Published:

Rome : In domo Petri de Maximis [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 12 May 1469.

Description:

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

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Incipit (leaf [1]/2r): [G]allia est omnis divisa in partes tres...
Colophon (leaf [17]/4v): Anno Christi .M.CCCC.lxix. die vero .xii. mensis maii. Paulo florente .ii. anno eius .v. rome in domo Petri de Maximis.
Printed in type 2:115R.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-12¹⁰ 13¹² 14-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17⁶]: 168 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [17]/6 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
275 copies printed.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 22.5 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [1]/1 (blank), [1]/2, and [17]/6 (blank); leaf [1]/1 replaced in facsimile. Leaf [6]/5.6 bound before [6]/4.7.

Binding:

18th/19th-century red straight-grained morocco with gilt-tooled framing and turn-ins over paper boards (34.5 x 24 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Paper pastedowns and fly leaves painted blue, with plain paper flyleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Gold initials with white-vine decoration with orange and maroon interior spaces and blue outline). Annotations: Marginal notations throughout in a contemporary Italian hand, later bleached (but mainly still visible), leaving the outer margins very fragile.

Provenance:

Payne & Foss inscription, 1844; Edward Vernon Utterson (1775/6-1856), book label (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 485; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Rosenbach, Feb. 1924.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Annotations

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books