Accession number
PML 302
Creator
Tacitus, Cornelius.
Object title
[Opera].
Published
[Venice] : Vindelinus de Spira, [about 1471-1472]
Description
[178] leaves ; 29.5 x 20.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [19]/7r): C[a]esareos mores scribit Cornelius esto / Iste tibi codex: histori[a]e pater est. / Insigni quem laude feret gens postera: pressit / Spira premens: artis gloria prima su[a]e.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Dated about 1471-72 in CIBN, about 1473 by Goff.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10-11⁸ 12-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18-19⁸]: 178 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [19]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printed catchwords.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 19.7 cm.
Colophon (leaf [19]/7r): C[a]esareos mores scribit Cornelius esto / Iste tibi codex: histori[a]e pater est. / Insigni quem laude feret gens postera: pressit / Spira premens: artis gloria prima su[a]e.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Dated about 1471-72 in CIBN, about 1473 by Goff.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10-11⁸ 12-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18-19⁸]: 178 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [19]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printed catchwords.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 19.7 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter red goatskin with cloth sides over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Venetian illuminated initial (leaf [1]/2r), red initials. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout, all washed/faded. Lower margins replaced on leaves [1]/2 and [19]/7.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, abraded (illegible under UV); [Rev. William Makellar (1836-1896); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 Nov. 1898, lot 3099 to Ellis for £49--PML copy?]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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