Accession number
PML 128200
Creator
Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.
Object title
Svetonivs Tranqvillvs cvm Philippi Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici commentariis.
Published
Venetiis : Per Simonem cognomento Beuilaqua Papiensem, MCCCCLXXXXVI [1496].
Description
[354] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 1999.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf aa1r).
Contains the De vita Caesarum, with commentaries surrounding the text.
Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf S5r): Co[m]mentaria Philippi Barualdi necnon Marci Antonii Sabellici In Suetonium Tranquillu[m] Feliciter Venetiis exacta. per Simonem cognomento Beuilaqua Papiensem. Anno Christianae Salutis MCCCCLXXXXXVI. Finis. [Printer's mark]
Signatures: aa⁴; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-R⁸ S⁶: 354 leaves, leaf S6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 20.7 cm.
Contains the De vita Caesarum, with commentaries surrounding the text.
Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf S5r): Co[m]mentaria Philippi Barualdi necnon Marci Antonii Sabellici In Suetonium Tranquillu[m] Feliciter Venetiis exacta. per Simonem cognomento Beuilaqua Papiensem. Anno Christianae Salutis MCCCCLXXXXXVI. Finis. [Printer's mark]
Signatures: aa⁴; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-R⁸ S⁶: 354 leaves, leaf S6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 20.7 cm.
Binding
18th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (32 x 22 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Etienne Boyet for Prince Eugene of Savoy. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Suetonius Tranquillus cum Philippe Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici commentariis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red and blue initials, red paragraph marks, capital in-fill, and highlighting of printed initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Lines of text sporadically crossed out.
Provenance
Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), armorial binding (after 1713), passed at his death to his niece: Princess Victoria of Savoy (1683-1763), who sold the Savoyard library (1737) to: Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740) and entered: Vienna, Imperial Library, duplicate stamp (leaf aa1r), sold ca. 1800; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, Sept. 1999.
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