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T. Livii decades.

Accession number
PML 20981
Creator
Livy.
Object title

T. Livii decades.

Published

Venetiis : per Philippum Pincium Mantuanum [for Lucantonio Giunta], M.ccccxcy. iii. nonas novembris [3 November 1495].

Description

[20], CCLIII, [1] ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf A1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf ii7v): T. Livii patavini Decades expliciunt. Venetiis per Philippum Pincium Mantuanum: summa cura & diligenti studio Impressae. Anno ab Incarnatione domini .M.ccccxcy. iii. nonas novembris. Imperante Serenissimo Augustino Barbadico Venetiarum duce foelicissimo.
Lucantio Giunta's mark at end of register, printed in red (leaf ii7v).
Printed in type 15:80R.
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ b⁴ c-l⁸ m-n¹⁰; A-K⁸ L¹⁰; aa-ii⁸: 274 leaves, leaf ii8 blank.
Edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus.
In 3 parts, continuously foliated.
Woodcuts, woodcut borders, woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 20.2 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter black goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (32 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Historiae Romanae decades
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Long inscription on Herodotus and Livy in French, 15th/16th century, visible under UV (leaf A1r).
Provenance
Price inscription, 15th/early-16th century: "Cestuy livre a conste xxxvi pattars" (leaf A1r); Universiteit Leiden, "ACAD" "LVGD" stamps and oval cancellation stamp: "Vend. iussu Curr. J. Geel. 1843" (leaf A1r); Bernard Quaritch, cat. 353, no. 233; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1919.
Classification
Century
Department