Clavdii Ptholomei viri Alexandrini cosmographie liber primvs incipit.

Accession number:

PML 22098-99

Author:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century.

Published:

Impr[e]ssum Vlme : per ingeniosum virum Leonardum Hol, Anno M CCCC LXXXII Augusti vero kalendas XVII [16 July 1482].

Description:

[69, 64] leaves : illustrations (maps) ; 42.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf a2r: Clavdii Ptholomei viri Alexandrini cosmographie liber primvs incipit.
Incipit caption, leaf a1r: Beatissimo patri Pavlo secvndo pontifici maximo donis Nicolavs Germanvs.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [32]/2v: Clavdii Ptolomei viri Alexandrini Cosmographie octavvs et vltimvs liber explicit. Opvs donni Nicolai Germani secvndvm Ptolomevm finit. Anno M CCCC LXXXII. Avgvsti vero kalendas .XVII. Imprssvm [sic] Vlme per ingeniosvm virvm Leonardvm Hol prefati oppidi civis.
Printed in Hol's types 1:140R.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-g⁸ h¹⁰(9+1: "tuu[m] penuria"): 69 leaves; [1-32²]: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio
32 woodcut maps. Ptolemaic world map signed: "Insculptam est per Ioanne[m] Schnitzer de Armsheim."
For variant editions, see BMC.
Translated by Jacobus Angelus. Edited by Nicolaus Germanus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41.5 x 28.2 cm.
PML copy bound in 2 volumes. Maps are bound on tabs; several of the maps are trimmed, with losses to edges.

Binding:

19th-century blind-rolled maroon morocco over paper boards (42.5 x 29.5/33 cm), sewn on 6 supports, with gilt armorial of Grenville. Brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Claudii Ptholomei viri Alexandrini cosmographie liber primus incipit

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required; initial hand colored (leaf a1r); maps hand colored. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), armorial bindings and bookplates (front pastedowns), perhaps exchanged paper copy when acquired vellum copy, see Bibliotheca Grenvilliana (1842), I, part 2: 581 is printed on vellum; Payne & Foss, cat. Feb. 1830, no. 52, although identified as a copy printed on vellum, the vellum Grenville copy at the British Library (vol. 1, rear endleaf 2 recto); Charles Joseph Knight (d. 1888), armorial label (C. I. & E. Knight, with motto "Factis non verbis") (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, 6 June 1889, lot 819, for £8.15 to Bernard Quaritch; James W. Ellsworth (1849-1925), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, 1923.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books