[Breviarium historiae Romanae].

Accession number:

PML 21975

Author:

Eutropius, -399

Published:

Rome : [Georgius Lauer], 20 May 1471.

Description:

[104] leaves ; 28.5 x 20 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Incipit Eutropi[us] historiographus: & post eum Paulus diacon[us]: de historiis italice provincie ac Romanorum.
Colophon ([11]/6v): Eutropius historiographus Rome impressus Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxi. die lune .xx. Mensis Mai Ponti. S. in [Christ]o p[at]ris ac d[omi]ni nostri dom[in]i Pauli divina p[ro]videntia Pape Secundi. Anno eius Septimo Explicit.
Printed in type 2:111R.
Collation: [1⁸; 2-10¹⁰ 11⁶]: 104 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 19 cm.
PML copy with tabula (quire [1]) bound last.

Binding:

Modern full brown goatskin, blind-stamped in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 6 supports by R. Petit of Paris. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with modern paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

De historiis italice provincie ac Romanorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated white vine initials, with minor gilt initials on red and blue ground or alternating plain red and blue, and alternating red and blue paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Henry Huth (1815-1878) and Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, part 3, 2 June 1913, lot 2755; John Arthur Brooke (1844-1920), bookplate (front fly leaf recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 May 1921, lot 583; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Wilfred Voynich, Feb. 1923.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Rubrics

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books