Accession number
PML 18392
Creator
Herodotus.
Object title
Herodoti Halicarnasei Historiarum liber primus.
Published
Venice : Jacobus Rubeus, [before December] 1474.
Description
[260] leaves ; 28.5 x 21 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1908.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Herodoti Halicarnasei Historiarum Liber Primus.
Colophon (leaf [26]/6v): Herodoti Halicarnassei patris historiae traductio e graeco in latinu[m] habita p[er] vi[rum] eruditissimu[m] Laure[n]tiu[m] Vale[n]se[n] si[n]gularem nostris te[m]poribus cive[m] ro[m]anu[m] sub Nicolao .v. su[m]mo po[n]tifice. Venetiis i[m]pressu[m] e[st] hoc opus p[er] Jacobu[m] Rubeu[m] natione Gallicu[m]. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxiiii. Nicolao Marcello duce Ven.
Printed in type 1*:113R.
Collation: [1-25¹⁰ 26⁶; 27⁴]: 260 leaves, leaves [1]/1. Variant collation in GW (with [27]/4 blank).
Chancery folio (27.2 x 19.7 cm)
Translated by Laurentius Valla. Edited by Benedictus Brognolus.
Printed under Doge Nicolò Marcello, who died on 1 Dec. 1474.
Two copies are known with the dedication printed on vellum (Stockholm, and Sotheby's, London, 18 Oct. 2005 lot 188) (ISTC).
PML copy with a blank leaf inserted after [26]/6, possibly conjoint with blank after [27]/4.
Colophon (leaf [26]/6v): Herodoti Halicarnassei patris historiae traductio e graeco in latinu[m] habita p[er] vi[rum] eruditissimu[m] Laure[n]tiu[m] Vale[n]se[n] si[n]gularem nostris te[m]poribus cive[m] ro[m]anu[m] sub Nicolao .v. su[m]mo po[n]tifice. Venetiis i[m]pressu[m] e[st] hoc opus p[er] Jacobu[m] Rubeu[m] natione Gallicu[m]. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxiiii. Nicolao Marcello duce Ven.
Printed in type 1*:113R.
Collation: [1-25¹⁰ 26⁶; 27⁴]: 260 leaves, leaves [1]/1. Variant collation in GW (with [27]/4 blank).
Chancery folio (27.2 x 19.7 cm)
Translated by Laurentius Valla. Edited by Benedictus Brognolus.
Printed under Doge Nicolò Marcello, who died on 1 Dec. 1474.
Two copies are known with the dedication printed on vellum (Stockholm, and Sotheby's, London, 18 Oct. 2005 lot 188) (ISTC).
PML copy with a blank leaf inserted after [26]/6, possibly conjoint with blank after [27]/4.
Binding
Modern full gilt-tooled black goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edgs.
Variant title
Historiae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Minor contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout in several hands. Headlines with Liber number. Foliation, quire numbers (on final verso), and alpha-numeric quire signatures, mainly trimmed. Manuscript index on blank leaf at end, 16th/17th century.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Sept. 1908.
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