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Plutarchi Vitae.

Accession number
PML 37607
Creator
Plutarch.
Object title

Plutarchi Vitae.

Published

Venetiis imp[re]ssae : [Per] Bartolameu[m] de Zanis de Portesio, Anno n[ost]ri saluatoris 1496 die octo Me[n]sis Iunius [8 June 1496]

Description

[1], 145, 144 leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1942.
Notes
Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf S8r): Viro[rum] illustrium uitae ex Plutarcho Graeco in latinu[m[uersae: soletri[que] cura emendatae foeliciter expliciunt: Venetiis imp[re]ssae [per] Bartolameu[m] de Zanis de Portesio Anno n[ost]ri saluatoris. 1496. die octo Me[n]sis Iunius.
Printed in Zanis's type 2:80R.
Signatures: a-r⁸ s¹⁰; A-S⁸: 290 leaves.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio.
In two parts.
Woodcuts, woodcut initials.
A Latin translation of Plutarch's Lives, accompanied by the De historia Romana of Sextus Rufus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.9 x 21 cm.
Binding
19th-century blind-tooled (calf?) over paper boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; yellow edges.
Variant title
Plvtarchi Vitae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified armorial added to woodcut border: phoenix over 3 beehives over a crescent moon and diagonal stripes (leaf a2r); unidentified armorial stamp, abraded (leaf a2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H. Reichner, Dec. 1942.
Classification
Century
Department