Geographia, libri XVI.

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Accession number: 
PML 75891
Author: 
Strabo.
Published: 
Rome impresserunt : Conradus Sweynheym: Arnoldus Pannartzque magistri, .M.CCCC.LXXIII. Die uero Veneris .XII. mensis Februarii [Friday, 12 February 1473].
Description: 
[240] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Gift of H.P. Kraus, Inc., 1979.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [24]/9r (in verse): Aspicis illustris lector quicunq[ue] libellos / Si cupis artificum nomina nosse: lege. / Aspera ridebis cognomina Teutona: forsan / Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum. / Conradus suueynheym: Arnoldus pa[n]nartzq[ue] maigstri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. .M.CCCC.LXXIII. Die uero Veneris .XII. mensis Februarii.
Printed in Sweynheym and Pannartz's type 2:115R.
Collation: [1-24¹⁰]: 240 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [24]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.9 x 27.5 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary Czech blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, bound at Olomouc by the so-called Herzogenburg bindery (EBDB w000125/Kryiss 13, active 1475-98; assigned by Kyriss to the Augustinians at Herzogenburg, reattributed to Olomouc by Mayo). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, missing (catches attached to rear board).
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary (probably Olomouc?) rubrication and illumination, alternating red and blue initials; primary initials illuminated with floral and foliate decoration. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations in text, mainly indicating textual divisions or keywords. Contemporary manuscript title, "Strabo" (leaf [1]/1r) and alpha-numeric quire signatures, mainly trimmed.

Provenance: 
Vienna, Bundesdenkmalamt, stamps (front pastedown); Gilhofer & Ranschburg, cat. 195 (1927), no. 102; Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), his sale, Parke-Bernet, 27 Jan. 1949, lot 156; Harrison D. Horblit (1912-1988); H.P. Kraus, Inc., cat. 154 (1979), no. 103, collation note by Roland Folter, June 1979 (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of H.P. Kraus, Inc., Dec. 1979.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Department: 
Printed Books