[Opera].

Accession number:

PML 20123

Author:

Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320.

Published:

Subiaco : [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 29 October 1465.

Description:

[186] leaves ; 32.5 x 23 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Tabula incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Lactantii Firmiani de divinis institutio[n]ibus adversus gentes rubrice p[ri]mi libri incipiu[n]t.
Colophon (leaf [19]/8v): Lactantii Firmiani de divinis institutionisbus adversus gentes libri septem. necno[n] eiusde[m] ad Donatu[m] de ira dei liber unus. unacu[m] libro de opificio ho[min]is ad Demetrianu[m] finiunt[ur]. Sub a[n]no d[omi]ni .M.CCCC.LXV. Pontificantus Pauli pape .ii. anno eius secu[n]do. Indictio[n]e .xiii. die vero an[te]penulti[m]a mensis Octobris. In venerabili monasterio Sublacensi. Deo gratias.
[1¹⁰ 2²; 3-7¹⁰ 8¹² 9-15¹⁰ 16¹² 17-19¹⁰]: 186 leaves, leaves [1]/10 and [19]/9-10 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Leaf [3]/1r known in a variant state (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21.7 cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [1]/10 and [19]/9-10 (blanks).

Binding:

Italian, 19th-century red goatskin over paper boards (32.5 x 23 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Angelo Trani, Naples. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; all edges gilt.

Variant Title:

De divinis institutionisbus adversus gentes

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated incipit initials with marginal foliate decoration, by the Master of the Barbo Missal in Ferrara (see Martin Davies' correspondence in dept. file); rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards with penword decoration (Italian style) and paragraph marks in tabula. Individual manuscript chapter rubrics and marginal chapter numbers. Rubricator signed below colophon: N.I. Amen W. (leaf [19]/8v). Annotations: Contemporary foliation and numerical headlines. Minimal marginal notations.

Provenance:

N.I.W., rubricator (leaf [19]/8v); Luigi Serra (1747-1825), duca di Cassano, note (front fly leaf recto); George John Spencer (1758-1834), Earl Spencer; his duplicates sale, Evans, 3 March 1821, lot 172, for £12 to Barclay via John and Arthur Arch (booksellers); Charles Barclay, of Bury Hill, bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase note tipped-in, through inheritance to: Major R.W. Barclay; his sale, Sotheby's, 17 Nov. 1916; Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by F.S. Ferguson, 21 Nov. 1916 (rear fly leaf recto); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, Jan. 1917.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Rubrics

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books