Accession number
PML 628
Creator
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Object title
Rervm familiarvm.
Published
Louvain : per me Iohannen de Westfalia, M. CCCC. LXXXIII [1483].
Description
[304 leaves] ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r: Enee Silvii Senensis poete lavreati impreialisqve secretaaii [sic] viri omnivm facile prestantissimi. Rervm familiarivm. Incipivnt peramene.
Imprint from colophon, leaf qq8r: Pii Secundi pontificis maximi eui ante summu[m] episcopatu[m] primu[m] quidem imperiali secretario Mox episcopo. Dei[n]de etia[m] Cardinali sene[n]si. Enee siluio nome[n] erat. Familiares epistole date ad amicos i[n] quadruplici uite eius statu finiunt per me Ioa[n]ne[n] de uuestfalia In alma uniuersitate louanie[n]si co[m]mora[n]te[m]. Anno incarnat[i]o[n]is dominice M. CCCC. LXXXIII.
Printed in Westfalia's type 4:120R.
Signatures: a-y aa-qq⁸: 304 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Signatures printed vertically at right of text block.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Includes tracts and bulls of Pius, and Poggius Florentinus: Epistola de balneis; see BMC.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf qq8r: Pii Secundi pontificis maximi eui ante summu[m] episcopatu[m] primu[m] quidem imperiali secretario Mox episcopo. Dei[n]de etia[m] Cardinali sene[n]si. Enee siluio nome[n] erat. Familiares epistole date ad amicos i[n] quadruplici uite eius statu finiunt per me Ioa[n]ne[n] de uuestfalia In alma uniuersitate louanie[n]si co[m]mora[n]te[m]. Anno incarnat[i]o[n]is dominice M. CCCC. LXXXIII.
Printed in Westfalia's type 4:120R.
Signatures: a-y aa-qq⁸: 304 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Signatures printed vertically at right of text block.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Includes tracts and bulls of Pius, and Poggius Florentinus: Epistola de balneis; see BMC.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Binding
19th-century English(?) purple gilt-tooled morocco over paper boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Rerum familiarum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Low Countries rubrication, red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red capital strokes; primary initials with red penwork decoration and wash. Annotations: Sporadic nota bene marks throughout text. Abraded inscription, not legible under UV (leaf a2r).
Provenance
Unidentified (Quaritch?) English sale catalogue description, no. 25 (front endleaf 1 verso); unidentified price code: l/o/- and C+P inscription (rear endleaf 2 recto); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear endleaf 2 recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate with inscription: "B. 628" (front pastedown) and price code: s/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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