Accession number
PML 79125
Creator
Orosius, Paulus, author.
Object title
Pauli Orosii uiri doctissimi historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum.
Published
Impressi Venetiis : Opera & expensis Bernardini Veneti de Vitalibus, Anno ab incarnatione domini MCCCCC Die XII Mensis Octobris ... [12 October 1500]
Description
[80] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from caption (leaf a2r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf n8r).
Printed in Vitali's type 3:111R.
Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁸: 80 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Edited by Aeneas Vulpes.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Printer's device and register at colophon.
Imprint from colophon (leaf n8r).
Printed in Vitali's type 3:111R.
Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁸: 80 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Edited by Aeneas Vulpes.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Printer's device and register at colophon.
Binding
Modern full green straight-grained goatskin over paper boards (31 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Pavli Orosii viri doctissimi historiarvm initivm ad Avrelivm Avgvstinvm
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Previously the first text in a Sammelband, 16th-century inscription: "Pauli Orosii His. Lib. vii., Vitruvius Architetur. lib. X., Angeli Politiani Panepistemon, and Frontini de Aquaeductibus" (leaf a1r); Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 63, purchased from Sawyer of London, Oct. 1927; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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