Herodoti historici.

Accession number:

PML 21950

Author:

Herodotus.

Published:

Rome : Arnoldus Pannartz, 20 April 1475.

Description:

[246] leaves ; 34 x 24 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1923.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [4]/1r): Herodoti historici Incipit. Laurentii Vall[e]. conversio de Greco in Latinum.
Colophon (leaf [26]/9v): Impressus Rome: In domo nobilis viri Petri de Maximis. Anno Salutis .M.CCCC.LXXV. Die .XX. me[n]sis Aprilis. Seden[te]. Syxto .IIII. Pon. Max. Anno eius Quarto. DEO LAUS.
Printed in type 2:115R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3⁶; 4-13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-22¹⁰ 23⁸ 24¹⁰ 25⁸ 26¹⁰]: 246 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Laurentius Valla.
Revised by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.2 x 23.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding:

18th/19th-century(?) quarter sheepskin covered with red paper over paper boards (34 x 24 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.

Variant Title:

Historiae

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated white vine initials with pointed blue framing; alternating red/blue lombards in tabula and Roman numeral headlines for each book. Annotations: Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures. Extensive contemporary marginal notations in a humanist hand throughout, including foliation and inter-linear corrections. Manuscript title on top and bottom edges: "HERODOTI HISTORIAE". Contemporary inscription/price code(?): "gf 20" (leaf [26]/10v).

Provenance:

Unidentified contemporary armorial: gold/blue shield with a blue/gold bull surmounted by three fleur-de-lis, with initials: F. R., also a roundel with a eagle with the motto: "NUNC MICHI" (leaf [4]/1r); Robert Curzon, fourteenth Baron Zouche (1810-1873), inscription: "R Curzon. Parham. Dec. 1859 (crossed out) Jan 9. 1860" (front pastedown), through inheritance to his great-neice Mary Cecil (Curzon) Frankland, seventeenth Baroness Zouche (1875-1965); Curzon/Parham sale, Sotheby's, 9 Nov. 1920; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1923.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Sheepskin bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books