Accession number
PML 288
Creator
Nepos, Cornelius.
Object title
De vita excellentium.
Published
Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 8 March 1471.
Description
[54] leaves ; 29 x 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): AEMILII PROBI VIRI CLARISSIMI DE VITA EXCELLENTIUM LIBER INCIPIT FELICITER.
Colophon (leaf [6]/7r): PROBI AEMILII DE VIRORUM EXCELLENTIUM VITA PER .M. NICOLAUM JENSON VENETIIS OPUS FOELICITER IMPRESSUM EST ANNO A CHRISTI INCARNATIONE. M.CCCC.LXXI. VIII. IDUS MARTIAS.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰/⁸]: 54 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [6]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [6]/8 (blank); leaf [1]/1 pasted to front fly leaf.
Colophon (leaf [6]/7r): PROBI AEMILII DE VIRORUM EXCELLENTIUM VITA PER .M. NICOLAUM JENSON VENETIIS OPUS FOELICITER IMPRESSUM EST ANNO A CHRISTI INCARNATIONE. M.CCCC.LXXI. VIII. IDUS MARTIAS.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰/⁸]: 54 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [6]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [6]/8 (blank); leaf [1]/1 pasted to front fly leaf.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled brown morocco over heavy paper boards (29 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endband; gilt edges.
Variant title
De vita illustrium virorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Only one red initial (leaf [1]/2r), the remainder unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary table of contents (leaf [1]/1v) and foliation.
Provenance
Charles Spencer (1675-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: C 5: 41 (front fly leaf verso); John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, part IV, Puttick & Simpson, 6 Nov. 1882, lot 8806; unidentified bookseller's (Pickering & Chatto?) collation note, 9 Nov. 1882 (rear fly leaf); bibliographic description on Pickering & Chatto stationary (laid in at end); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 151, 8/5/96 and price code: wd/wm/- +com (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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