Accession number
PML 323
Creator
Justinus, Marcus Junianus.
Object title
In Trogi Pompeii historias.
Published
Venice : Filippo di Pietro, 12 December 1479.
Description
[104] leaves ; 31 x 21 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): JUSTINI HISTORICI CLARISSIMI IN TROGI POMPEII HISTORIAS EXORDIUM.
Colophon (leaf n10r): Justini opere finis cum magna diligentia. Impressum per Philippum condam petri in veneciis ducante Johanne mozenico inclito duce .M.cccc.lxxviiii. die xii decembris.
Printed in type 3:114R.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-c⁸ d⁶ e-l⁸ m⁶ n¹⁰: 104 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a, a3 signed a2, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20 cm.
Colophon (leaf n10r): Justini opere finis cum magna diligentia. Impressum per Philippum condam petri in veneciis ducante Johanne mozenico inclito duce .M.cccc.lxxviiii. die xii decembris.
Printed in type 3:114R.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-c⁸ d⁶ e-l⁸ m⁶ n¹⁰: 104 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a, a3 signed a2, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20 cm.
Binding
18th-century gilt-tooled red morocco in the Harleian style over paper boards (31 x 21 cm.); rebacked. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges with lattice pattern.
Variant title
Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
R.W., unidentified (German?) bookplate (front fly leaf verso); Charles Joseph Knight (d. 1888), armorial booklabel (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 6 June 1889; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: -/wm/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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