Accession number
PML 31845
Creator
Plutarch.
Published
Florentiae : In aedibus Philippi Iuntae, M. D. XVII. [27 August, 1517]
Notes
"Marcello Virgilio Rei.p.Florentinae a secretis.Philippus Iunta.S."--leaf 2.
Colophon: Diis auspicibus, Libro qui Vitae Plutarchi inscribitur, non sine maxima diligentia, multorumq[ue] antiquorum voluminum continua lectione, summa manus imposita est. Florentiae in aedibus Philippi iuntae. Anno uirginei partus humanqaeq[ue] salutis. M. D. XVII. Die.xxyii mensi Augusti. Leonis .X. Parae nostri anno quinto.
First edition of Plutarch's Lives.
Printer's device on the verso of the final leaf.
The "Registrum" tells that the gathering inserted between nos. 202 and 203 containing the life of Sulla is supposed to have 10 leaves.
Colophon: Diis auspicibus, Libro qui Vitae Plutarchi inscribitur, non sine maxima diligentia, multorumq[ue] antiquorum voluminum continua lectione, summa manus imposita est. Florentiae in aedibus Philippi iuntae. Anno uirginei partus humanqaeq[ue] salutis. M. D. XVII. Die.xxyii mensi Augusti. Leonis .X. Parae nostri anno quinto.
First edition of Plutarch's Lives.
Printer's device on the verso of the final leaf.
The "Registrum" tells that the gathering inserted between nos. 202 and 203 containing the life of Sulla is supposed to have 10 leaves.
Description
348 leaves.
Provenance
From Viscount Mersey's and the Duke of Sussex's collection.
Binding
Vellum.
Classification
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