Accession number:
PML 22121
Published:
Rome : In domo Petri de Maximis [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 25 August 1472.
Description:
[168] leaves ; 34.5 x 24.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes:
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-12¹⁰ 13¹² 14-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17⁶]: 168 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [17]/6 blank.
Colophon (leaf [17]/4v): Anno Christi .M.CCCClxxii. die vero .xxv. mensis augusti. Rome in domo Petri de Maximis.
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
Incipit (leaf [1]/2r): C. Julii Cesaris. belli gallici. Commentarius Primus.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.6 x 22.4 cm
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [17]/6 (blanks).
Printed in type 2:115R.
Title from ISTC.
Binding:
19th-century gilt-tooled brown goatskin over heavy paper boards (34.5 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with arms of John Eliot Hodgkin. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Moderate contemporary marginal notations throughout, all bleached. Book number for headline on rectos.
Provenance:
John Eliot Hodgkin (1829-1912), bookplates (front and rear pastedowns) and binding; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Leighton or Tregaskis, Oct. 1923.
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