Castigationes : Plinianae Hermolai Barbari Aquileiensis Pontificis.

Accession number: 
PML 27009
Author: 
Barbaro, Ermolao, 1454-1493.
Published: 
Rome : Eucharius Silber, 24 November 1492, 13 February 1493.
Description: 
[348] leaves ; 33.5 x 22 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1929.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a3r): CASTIGATIONES: PLInianae Hermolai Barbari Aquileiensis Pontificis.
Colophon I (leaf L6r): Finis Castigationum Plinianarum Hermolai Barbari. Impressit Eucharius Argenteus Germamus [sic]: Romae .MCCCCXCII. Octavo Kale[n]das Decembris: Alexandri Sexti Pontificis Maximi principatus / Statione prima.
Colophon II (²g8r): Finiunt: Hermolai: Bar. Patriarchae Aquileiensis Plinianae Castigationes: Item Aeditio in Plinium secunda: Item Emendatio in Melam Pomponium: Item Obscurae cum Expositionibus suis voces in Pliniano Codice. Impressit formis Eucharius Argenteus Germanus Romae Idibus Feb. M.CCCC.xciii. Alexandri Sexti Pont. Max. Principatus Anno Primo:.
Printed in types 2*:88R, 4:109R, and 88Gk.
Collation: a-z aa-bb⁸ cc¹⁰ A-I⁸ K-L⁶; a-e⁸ f⁶ g⁸: 348 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
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PML copy leaf dimensions: 32 x 21.3 cm.

Binding: 
16th-century German (Strassburg?) blind-rolled half pigskin over beech board (33.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, wanting.
Variant Title: 

Castigationes Plinianae Hermolai Barbari Aquileiensis Pontificis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript fore-edge title and shelf mark (from Sopher or Solms-Laubach?): "25 [Lamda]."

Provenance: 
Gervasius Sopher (d. 1556), of Breisgau, purchase inscription: "Mei Gervasii Sopheri Brisacogeani Argentorati emptus codex ille xiii s[oli]d[is] argen[teis]. Nonis Augustiis Anni etc. tredecimi manu propria," 9 August 1513 (front pastedown); Friedrich Magnus I, Graf von Solms-Laubach (1521-1561), purchased Sopher's library after his death; unidentified library (Bibliotheca Solms-Laubacensis?) stamp, abraded (leaf a1r); Austria Bundesdenkmalamt stamp (front pastedown); Gilhofer & Ranschburg, unidentified catalogue, description glued in (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Dec. 1929.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Genres: 
Pigskin bindings (Binding)
Half bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books