Accession number
PML 303
Creator
Solinus, C. Julius, active 3rd century?
Object title
De situ orbis terrarum et memorabilibus quae mundi ambitu
Published
Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 1473.
Description
[68] leaves ; 29.5 x 20.5 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/5r): JULII SOLINI DE SITU ORBIS TERRARUM ET MEMORABILIBUS QUAE MUNDI AMBITU CONTINENTUR LIBER.
Colophon (leaf [8]/11v): JULII SOLINI DE SITU ORBIS ET MEMORABILIBUS QUAE MUNDI AMBITU CONTINENTUR LIBER IMPRESSUS VENETIIS PER NICOLAUM JENSON GALLICUM .M.CCCC.LXXIII.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-7⁸ 8¹²]: 68 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [8]/12 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 19.8 cm.
Colophon (leaf [8]/11v): JULII SOLINI DE SITU ORBIS ET MEMORABILIBUS QUAE MUNDI AMBITU CONTINENTUR LIBER IMPRESSUS VENETIIS PER NICOLAUM JENSON GALLICUM .M.CCCC.LXXIII.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-7⁸ 8¹²]: 68 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [8]/12 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 19.8 cm.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled red straight-grained morocco over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm.) sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges.
Variant title
Polyhistor, sive De mirabilibus mundi, sive Collectanea rerum memorabilium
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red initials and paragraph marks (contemporary or added by Morris?). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Modern page numbering by opening.
Provenance
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott book plate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code: w/-/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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