Accession number
PML 20972
Creator
Valerius Maximus.
Object title
Valerii maximi Romane urbis Iuris peritissimi. In libru[m] factorum et dictorum memborabilium ad Tiberium Cesare[m].
Published
Parisius : [Au Soufflet Vert (Louis Symonel et Socii)], Anno domini M.CCCC.LxxV [1475].
Description
[264] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r: Valerii maximi Romane urbis Iuris peritissimi. In libru[m] factorum et dictorum memborabilium ad Tiberium Cesare[m]. Prefatio feliciter incipit.
City and date from colophon, leaf [27]/8r: Presens Valerii maximi opus preclarissimum in nobilissima Parisius Anno domini M.CCCC.LxxV. Feliciter est impressum.
Printed in Symonel's type 1:106R.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9-25¹⁰ 26-27⁸]: 264 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.5 cm, trimmed.
City and date from colophon, leaf [27]/8r: Presens Valerii maximi opus preclarissimum in nobilissima Parisius Anno domini M.CCCC.LxxV. Feliciter est impressum.
Printed in Symonel's type 1:106R.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9-25¹⁰ 26-27⁸]: 264 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.5 cm, trimmed.
Binding
19th-century French full red goatskin over heavy paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials (washed, blue has faded to whitish or washed away) and yellow capital strokes. A few initials in a reddish gold, perhaps added later. Red running headlines for book number. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Multiple red paragraph marks (in rubricator's ink?), some with fictive writing, added to margins of book I. Manicules made up of small circles in book VI.
Provenance
A.J. Canham, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, part VIII, 8 July 1919, lot 7653, to Quaritch (collation statement on rear endleaf 2 recto) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased July 1919.
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