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Homeri poetarvm svpremi Ilias per Lavrentivm Vallens. in latinvm sermonem tradvcta foeliciter incipit.

Accession number
PML 17620
Creator
Homer.
Object title

Homeri poetarvm svpremi Ilias per Lavrentivm Vallens. in latinvm sermonem tradvcta foeliciter incipit.

Published

Brixiȩ : He[n]ricus Coloniensis & Statius Gallicus foeliciter impressere, viii. k[a]l[ends] dece[m]br[is]. M.CCCC.LXXIIII [24 November 1474].

Description

[156 or 160] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Dedicatory letter from Justinianus Luzagus to Bernardus Justinianus (a1v-a2v) begins: Clarissimo viro Bernardo Iustiniano: eq̃ti aurato: ac oratori eloquẽtissimo Iustinianus Luzagus salutẽ.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t8v (GW 12897): Brixiȩ. viii. k[a]l[ends] dece[m]br[is]. M.CCCC.LXXIIII. He[n]ricus Coloniensis & Statius Gallicus foeliciter impressere.
Initial spaces, without guide letters.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 21 cm.
PML copy with a few leaves remargined.
Printed in Statius Gallicus's type 1:115R.
Signatures: a-o⁸ p¹⁰; [q-s¹⁰ t⁸]: 160 leaves. Variant collation of issue (GW 12896) with reset quires q-t and without colophon: a-o⁸ p¹⁰; [q¹⁰ r-t⁸]: 156 leaves. Signatures stamped by hand far down in right-hand corner and often trimmed away.
Title from incipit, leaf a3r.
Binding
18th-century English sprinkled calf over paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; rebacked by Sanford and Clarke. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant title
Title in ISTC : Ilias
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Luigi, duca di Cassano Serra (1727-1845); George John Spencer, 2nd earl (1758-1836), purchased Cassano Serra's library in 1807; Spencer duplicate sale, Evans, 2 March 1821, to Heber for £1.0.0; Richard Heber (1773-1833), purchase inscription, March 1821 (front fly leaf recto); Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Part V, Wheatley, 19 Jan. 1835, lot 2263 to Cornish; A.W. Bruce, of Lincoln's Inn, signature abraded, 1835 (front fly leaf), through inheritance to: James Lewis Knight Bruce (1791-1866), of Roehampton, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and John Wyndham Bruce (1802-1869), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 27 April 1870; Spencer Duff collection, cited in Voynich description; unidentified Voynich catalogue, no. 213 for £20 (description tipped-to front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Feb. 1911.
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