De evangelica praeparatione.

Accession number:

PML 37271

Author:

Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340..

Published:

Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 1470.

Description:

[142] leaves ; 35 x 24.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): EUSEBIUM Pamphili de evangelia praepratione latinum ex graeco beatissime pater jussu tuo effeci.
Colophon (leaf [14]/10r-v): Artis hic: & fidei splendet mirabile numen: / Quod fama auctores: auget honore deos. [leaf [14]/10v] Hoc Jenson veneta Nicolaus in urbe volumen / Prompsit: cui foelix gallica terra parens. / Scire placet tempus. Mauro christophorus urbi / Dux erta. aequa animo musa retecta suo est. / Quid magis artificem peteret Dux: christus: et auctor. / Tres facit aeternos ingeniosa manus. .M.CCCC.LXX.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰ 7¹² 8-14¹⁰]: 142 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius. With additions by Antonio Cornazzano.
Variant settings are known of the first and last leaves (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.5 x 23 cm

Binding:

18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over heavy paper boards (35 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Border (leaf [1]/1r) and major initials stamped with a woodcut, fully illuminated border and initials are partially colored by hand; red initials (from guide letters) and rubrics. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures. Sporadic marginal notations, 16th century.

Provenance:

Roland L. Redmond, book label (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books