Accession number
PML 20973
Creator
Tacitus, Cornelius.
Object title
Cornelii Taciti Historiae Augustae LI. XI. actionum diurnalium.
Published
[Milan] : [Antonius Zarotus], [approximately 1487]
Description
[376] pages ; 28.5 x 20 cm. (folio)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from caption of first work, leaf a2r.
Imprint and date from ISTC; dated about 1490 in IGI.
Printed in Zarotus's type 5:111R.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-i⁶ K⁸ l-n⁸ o⁶ p-s⁸ t-x⁶ y¹⁰ z⁸ &⁸ A-B⁶: 188 leaves, leaves y10, &8 and B6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
"This book has been ranged together with the preceding (IB. 26045 [Pius II, Epistola, dated October, 1487]) as the type seems to be in precisely the same state in both."--BMC.
"The use of the question mark, mentioned by Proctor as introduced in 1487, and the absence of a paragraph-mark, together with the general appearance of the page, places this book early in the period 1487-92"--Pollard, Hawkins.
In the dedicatory letter, "Franciscus Puteolanus mentions that the text was prepared for printing by himself and Bernardinus Lanterius, both of Milan"--Bod-inc.
37 lines, 206 x 123 mm (BMC notes "inner sheets of quires d,e are several lines short"). Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: B6 (blank).
Imprint and date from ISTC; dated about 1490 in IGI.
Printed in Zarotus's type 5:111R.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-i⁶ K⁸ l-n⁸ o⁶ p-s⁸ t-x⁶ y¹⁰ z⁸ &⁸ A-B⁶: 188 leaves, leaves y10, &8 and B6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
"This book has been ranged together with the preceding (IB. 26045 [Pius II, Epistola, dated October, 1487]) as the type seems to be in precisely the same state in both."--BMC.
"The use of the question mark, mentioned by Proctor as introduced in 1487, and the absence of a paragraph-mark, together with the general appearance of the page, places this book early in the period 1487-92"--Pollard, Hawkins.
In the dedicatory letter, "Franciscus Puteolanus mentions that the text was prepared for printing by himself and Bernardinus Lanterius, both of Milan"--Bod-inc.
37 lines, 206 x 123 mm (BMC notes "inner sheets of quires d,e are several lines short"). Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: B6 (blank).
Binding
19th-century gilt- and blind-tooled full goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Riviere. Plain vellum pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Cornelii Taciti Historiae Avgvstae LI. XI. actionvm divrnalivm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Some contemporary marginal notations throughout text, washed/faded.
Provenance
Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, pt. 8, 8 July 1919, lot 7191, to Bernard Quaritch for £51; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1919.
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