Historiarum.

Accession number: 
PML 19580
Author: 
Josephus, Flavius.
Published: 
Rome : Arnoldus Pannartz, 25 November 1475.
Description: 
[176] pages ; 32 x 22 cm (fol. and 4to.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): HISTORIAUM JOSEPHI LIBRI NUMERO VII. LIBER PRIMUS. INCIPIT.
Colophon (LEAF [19]/19V): IMPRESSIT CLARUS AC DILIGENTISS. ARTIFEX ARNOLDUS PANNARTZ. NATIONE GERMANUS IN DOMO VIRI NOBILIS PETRI DE MAX. CIVIS ROMANI. ANNO INCARNATI VERBI. M.CCCCLXXV. DIE VERO .XXV. NOVEM. SENDEN. SIXTO. IIII. PONT. MAX. ANNO EIUS. .V. PLATYNA EMENDAVIT
Printed in type 2:115R.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8-11¹⁰ 12-13⁶ 14-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-19¹⁰]: 176 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio and Royal quarto
Translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis. Edited by Bartholomaeus Platina.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.8 x 21.4 cm.
PML copy with leaves [19]/4.7 and [19]/2.9 in Royal quarto.

Binding: 
19th-century half goatskin with paste paper sides over paper boards (32 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Illuminated initial with foliate border, damaged (leaf [1]/1r), rubricated with alternating red and blue lombards with penwork decoration and red capital strokes. Annotations: Extensive marginal notations by Michael de Vita throughout.

Provenance: 
Naples (Italy), Dominicans, inscription: "Est fr[atr]is D[omi]nici de Neap[o]li alias de [???]," 15th/16th century (leaf [1]/1r); Alfonso del Blasio, signature, 16th/17th century (leaf [1]/1r); Joachim de Vita, inscription: "Ex Lib: Joa: de Vita 1658" (leaf [1]/1r); Michael de Vita, inscriptions: "Ex Libris Michaelis de Vita Prothomedici Beneventani anno D[omi]ni 1700"; unidentified oval armorial ink stamp (13 x 10 mm); Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), armorial book plate with shelf mark: BB.j.5 (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); his sale, Evans, 1 July 1844, lot 3901; Giuseppe Martini, unidentified catalogue, no. 83 (description pasted to rear fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Martini, 1912.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Half bindings (Binding)
Paste papers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books