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Flavii Vegetii Renati viri illustris epitoma rei militaris libri numero iiii.

Accession number
PML 25133
Creator
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.
Object title

Flavii Vegetii Renati viri illustris epitoma rei militaris libri numero iiii.

Published

Piscie : Sigismondo Rodt de Bitsche, [for] Sebastianus [et] Raphael de Orlandis, .iiii. nonas Aprilis .Mcccclxxxviii [2 April 1488].

Description

[34] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol. and 4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf e8r: ...Ingenui adolescentes Sebastianus [et] Raphael de Orlandis.... Piscie .iiii. nonas Aprilis .Mcccclxxxviii. Sigismondo Rodt de Bitsche operis architecto.
Printed in Rodt's type 1:86G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-d⁶ e⁸: 34 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto.
Bearer type visible, leaf e8v.
PML copy with leaf c3.4 in quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.7 cm.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped vellum over beech boards (28.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked by Duprez Lahey. Blind-tooled with the Eyb armorial and bishop's mitre, probably Gabriel von Eyb, bishop of Eichstätt, and a rolled band with the motto "Ich wart des Glucks" (same motto appears on Munich, BSB, Cgm 837, ca. 1500, probably from Rebdorf). Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: 16th-century German marginal notations, throughout first-half, underlining and NB marks.
Provenance
Gabriel von Eyb, bishop of Eichstätt (1455-1535, bp. 1494-1535), armorial tool on binding, perhaps from Eichstätt Cathedral library; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Dec. 1927.
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Century
Department