Strabonis Cappadocis seu Gnossi Amasini scriptoris celeberrimi de situ orbis ...

Accession number:

PML 445

Author:

Strabo.

Published:

[Treviso] : Ioa[n]nes Vercellensis, Anno Sal. M. cccclxxx septimo kl. Septembris [26 August 1480]

Description:

[320] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from caption (leaf a7).
Imprint from colophon (leaf Q5v): Strabonis amasini scriptoris illustris geographiae opus finit: q[uo]d Ioha[n]nes Vercellensis p[ro]pria impensa uiue[n]tibus posterisq[ue] exactissima diligentia imprimi curauit. Anno sal. M. cccclxxx. septimo. kl. septembris.
Printed in Rubeus's type 1:112R and 13:112Gr.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z & A-P⁸ Q⁶: 320 leaves, leaves a1 and Q6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tifernas; edited by Joannes Andreas.
Capital spaces, a few with guide-letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 19.1 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and Q8 (blanks).

Binding:

19th-century French gilt- and blind-tooled calf over paper boards (29.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

De situ orbis

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: German (Lower Rhine?) rubrication, alternating red and blue intitials, primary initials with red penwork decoration, red capital strokes. Annotations: 19th-century English bibliographic inscription citing Dr. Clark's bibliographic dictionary (front fly leaf verso).

Provenance:

Edward Shipperdson (1781-1855), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 28 April 1887; unidentified sale price inscriptions: £3/3/ and £4.4 (front fly leaf verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code: r/wm/- +___ (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books