Accession number
PML 20949
Creator
Isocrates.
Object title
Ploutarchou bios Isokratous.
Published
[Milan] : [Uldericus Scinzenzeler and Sebastianus de Ponte Tremulo for Bartholomaeus Scyasus, Vincentius Aliprantus and Bartholomaeus Rozonus], [24 January 1493].
Description
[200] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [alpha]2r).
Imprint from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf CC6v): Eteleiōthē syn theō to paron vivlion Isokratous en Mediolanō diorthōthen men hypo Dēmētriou tou Chalkondylou typōthen de kai syntethen hypo Errikou tou Germanou kai Sevastianou tou ek Pontremoulou; to d'analōma pepoiēkasin hoi tou lamprotatou hēgemonos Mediolanou grammateis Bartholomaois Skyasos, Vikentios Aliprantos, Bartholomaios Rhozōnos etei tō apo tēs Christou gennēseōs chiliostō tetrakosiostō en enēkostō tritō mēnos Ianouariou eikostē tetartē. [Scinzenzeler's printer's mark.]
Printed in Scinzenzeler's types 1:110Gk and 3:110 R
Signatures: [alpha]-[beta]⁸; [gamma]⁸ [delta]¹⁰; A-L⁸ M-Y⁶ AA-CC⁶: 200 leaves, leaves [alpha]1, [beta]8, and [delta]10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles.
Text preceded by three brief lives of Isocrates by Pseudo-Plutarch, Philostratus, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
35 lines. Capital spaces, most with guide letters.
Quire A is found in two settings: in the presumed first setting, A1v has 35 lines; in the second setting, A1v has 34 lines. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Sheet B3.6 exists in two settings. In one setting, line 28 on B3r begins: ton; in another setting, it begins: tōn. Cf. BM 15th cent.
There is a 1535 reissue of the sheets of this edition, with quires [alpha] and CC reset and with imprint: Venetiis M.D. XXXV. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Woodcut printer's device (Husung 60) on leaf CC6v.
Register on leaf CC6r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.2 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf CC6v): Eteleiōthē syn theō to paron vivlion Isokratous en Mediolanō diorthōthen men hypo Dēmētriou tou Chalkondylou typōthen de kai syntethen hypo Errikou tou Germanou kai Sevastianou tou ek Pontremoulou; to d'analōma pepoiēkasin hoi tou lamprotatou hēgemonos Mediolanou grammateis Bartholomaois Skyasos, Vikentios Aliprantos, Bartholomaios Rhozōnos etei tō apo tēs Christou gennēseōs chiliostō tetrakosiostō en enēkostō tritō mēnos Ianouariou eikostē tetartē. [Scinzenzeler's printer's mark.]
Printed in Scinzenzeler's types 1:110Gk and 3:110 R
Signatures: [alpha]-[beta]⁸; [gamma]⁸ [delta]¹⁰; A-L⁸ M-Y⁶ AA-CC⁶: 200 leaves, leaves [alpha]1, [beta]8, and [delta]10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles.
Text preceded by three brief lives of Isocrates by Pseudo-Plutarch, Philostratus, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
35 lines. Capital spaces, most with guide letters.
Quire A is found in two settings: in the presumed first setting, A1v has 35 lines; in the second setting, A1v has 34 lines. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Sheet B3.6 exists in two settings. In one setting, line 28 on B3r begins: ton; in another setting, it begins: tōn. Cf. BM 15th cent.
There is a 1535 reissue of the sheets of this edition, with quires [alpha] and CC reset and with imprint: Venetiis M.D. XXXV. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Woodcut printer's device (Husung 60) on leaf CC6v.
Register on leaf CC6r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.2 cm.
Binding
Modern red morocco over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports (by Deborah Evetts?). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Title from text incipit (fol. gamma1r): Isokratous Pros Dēmonikon logos parainetikos
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Some contemporary marginal notations in Greek, heavier in quires L-N, and headlines. Contemporary foliation at bottom corner, mostly trimmed.
Provenance
Pietro Crinito (1475-1507), inscriptions: "Editio prima Isocratis anno 1493. fuitque hoc exemplar Petri Criniti" (leaf [alpha]1v) and trimmed "...Criniti et amicorum" inscription (leaf [alpha]2r); inscription: "Di P. Cosimo di Fran. ca Abbati dal Pontediera," 16th century (leaf [alpha]2r); Thomas Herbert (1656-1733), Earl of Pembroke, previous binding with spine title inscription (leaf [alpha]2r); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, lot 115, to Quaritch (collation inscription, 1 July 1914, rear endleaf of former binding, in dept. file); J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1920.
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