Accession number
PML 75084-85
Creator
Livy.
Object title
Historiae Romanae decades.
Published
Rome impresserunt : Conradus Sweynheym: Arnoldus Pannartzque magistir, [not before 23 (or 13) September 1469]
Description
[412] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. H. P. Kraus, 1975.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [42]/12r (in verse): Aspicis illustris lector quicunq[ue] libellos / Si cupis artificium nomina nosse: lege. / Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona: forsan / Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum. / Co[n]rardus suueynheym: Arnoldus pa[n]nartzq[ue] magistri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. / Petrus cum fratre Francisco maximus ambo / Huic operi optatam contribuere domum.
Printed in Sweynheym and Pannartz's type 2:115R.
ISTC -- The text of the fourth decade was printed from MS Firenze Ricc.487, which has a note by Andreas recording that he finished preparing the MS for printing on 23 (or 13) Sept. 1469 (M.D. Reeve, in Rivista di Filologia 114 (1986) p.166).
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2¹² 3-14¹⁰ 15-17⁸ 18-30¹⁰ 31⁸ 32-34¹⁰ 35-36⁸ 37-41¹⁰ 42¹²]: 412 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.3 x 28.3 cm, bound in 2 volumes.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf [42]/12r (in verse): Aspicis illustris lector quicunq[ue] libellos / Si cupis artificium nomina nosse: lege. / Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona: forsan / Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum. / Co[n]rardus suueynheym: Arnoldus pa[n]nartzq[ue] magistri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. / Petrus cum fratre Francisco maximus ambo / Huic operi optatam contribuere domum.
Printed in Sweynheym and Pannartz's type 2:115R.
ISTC -- The text of the fourth decade was printed from MS Firenze Ricc.487, which has a note by Andreas recording that he finished preparing the MS for printing on 23 (or 13) Sept. 1469 (M.D. Reeve, in Rivista di Filologia 114 (1986) p.166).
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2¹² 3-14¹⁰ 15-17⁸ 18-30¹⁰ 31⁸ 32-34¹⁰ 35-36⁸ 37-41¹⁰ 42¹²]: 412 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.3 x 28.3 cm, bound in 2 volumes.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
Early 19th-century red straight-grained morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled, over paper boards (41.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges, over marbled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian (Rome?) rubrication, red rubrics, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks; primary initials in gold with white vine decoration; white vine border, with empty circular shield in bottom border (leaf [3]/2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric signature, mainly trimmed.
Provenance
Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth Library, bookplate, shelfmark: 14 B (front pastedowns of both volumes), Christie's, Chatworth duplicates sale, 6 June 1973, lot 12 to H. P. Kraus to: Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Kraus, 1975.
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