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In hoc volvmine haec continentvr : Ioannis Baptistae Egnatij Veneti De Caesaribus libri III à Dictatore Caesare ad [Constan]tinum Palaeologum, hinc à Carolo Magno ad Maximilianum Caesarem : eiusdem in Spartiani, Lampridijq[ue] uitas, & reliquorum annotationes : Neruae & Traiani atq[ue] Adriani principum uitae ex Dione, Georgio Merula interprete : Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Lampridius, Flauius Vopiscus, Trebellius Pollio, Vulcatius Gallicanus, ab eodem Egnatio castigati : additae in calce Heliogabali principis ad meretrices elegantissima oratio non ante impressa.

Accession number
PML 1271
Published
Venetiis : In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Ivlio 1516.
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Dedicatory preface by Egnazio addressed to Jacobo Minutio dated: 10 June 1517.
Signatures: HS⁸ (HS7-8 blank); Ab-Hi⁸ (Hi8 blank); AaA-DdD⁸ EeE⁴; a-z⁸ aa-oo⁸.
Aldine device on t.p. and verso of final leaf.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
First published in Milan by Philippus de Lavagnia in 1475.
Description
[108], 295, [1] leaves (leaves [7-8, 72] blank) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Maffeo Pinelli (1736-1785), sale, 2 March 1789; August Henry Fitzroy, fourth Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), purchased at Pinelli sale by [Peter] Elmsely for Grafton for £3.10.0, sales, Sotheby's 18 Dec. 1811 and Evans 6 June 1815; Richard Heber (1773-1833), sale, Wheatley's, part V, 19 Jan. 1835, lot 1102; Archibald Acheson, third Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased at Heber sale, shelf mark: D1; James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
16th-century gilt-tooled brown morocco over wooden boards, gilt and gauffered edges; repaired. 4 clasps, missing.
Classification
Department