P. Candidi in libro Appia[n]i sophistae Alea[n]drini ad Nicolaum quintum summum pontificem, praefatio incipit foelicissime.

Accession number: 
PML 18884
Author: 
Appianus, of Alexandria.
Published: 
Sca[n]diani : Peregrini Pasquali, Anno a natali Christi. M.CCCCLCXV. IIII. Iduu[m] Ianuarii [10 January 14[9]5].
Description: 
[80] leaves ; 30.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf N7v: Dilige[n]tis: ac ingeniosi Calchographi Peregrini Pasquali exactissima: tum opera: tum cura haec candidi ex Appia[n]o historico & Sophista traductio Sca[n]diani Camillo Boiardo Comite Impressa est Anno a natali Christi. M.CCCCLCXV. IIII. Iduu[m] Ianuarii.
Printed in Pasqualibus's type 23:110R.
Signatures: A-M⁶ N⁸: 80 leaves, leaf N8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius
Pars I comprises the Proemium Appiani, Punica, Syriaca, Parthica (Pseudo-Appianus) and Mithridatica (CIBN).
Leaf C1r blank, with printed marginalia explaining lack of text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.2 cm.

Binding: 
Modern half red goatskin with marbled paper sides over paper boards (30.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Modern plaing paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian(?) rubrication, red initials. Annotations: Early reader's marks (similar to ·/) and underlining. Late-16th/17th-century foliation indicating this used to be in a composite volume: foliation begins at 134. Manuscript title on bottom edge, partially missing.

Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini (from J. & J. Leighton), 1909.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books