Accession number
PML 37271
Creator
Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340..
Object title
De evangelica praeparatione.
Published
Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 1470.
Description
[142] leaves ; 35 x 24.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, 1942.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): EUSEBIUM Pamphili de evangelia praepratione latinum ex graeco beatissime pater jussu tuo effeci.
Colophon (leaf [14]/10r-v): Artis hic: & fidei splendet mirabile numen: / Quod fama auctores: auget honore deos. [leaf [14]/10v] Hoc Jenson veneta Nicolaus in urbe volumen / Prompsit: cui foelix gallica terra parens. / Scire placet tempus. Mauro christophorus urbi / Dux erta. aequa animo musa retecta suo est. / Quid magis artificem peteret Dux: christus: et auctor. / Tres facit aeternos ingeniosa manus. .M.CCCC.LXX.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰ 7¹² 8-14¹⁰]: 142 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius. With additions by Antonio Cornazzano.
Variant settings are known of the first and last leaves (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.5 x 23 cm
Colophon (leaf [14]/10r-v): Artis hic: & fidei splendet mirabile numen: / Quod fama auctores: auget honore deos. [leaf [14]/10v] Hoc Jenson veneta Nicolaus in urbe volumen / Prompsit: cui foelix gallica terra parens. / Scire placet tempus. Mauro christophorus urbi / Dux erta. aequa animo musa retecta suo est. / Quid magis artificem peteret Dux: christus: et auctor. / Tres facit aeternos ingeniosa manus. .M.CCCC.LXX.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰ 7¹² 8-14¹⁰]: 142 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius. With additions by Antonio Cornazzano.
Variant settings are known of the first and last leaves (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.5 x 23 cm
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over heavy paper boards (35 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Border (leaf [1]/1r) and major initials stamped with a woodcut, fully illuminated border and initials are partially colored by hand; red initials (from guide letters) and rubrics. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures. Sporadic marginal notations, 16th century.
Provenance
Roland L. Redmond, book label (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
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