Accession number:
PML 15419
Published:
[Rome] : [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], [about 1468-1469]
Description:
[110] leaves ; 28.5 x 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan by 1907.
Notes:
Title and imprint from ISTC.
PML Checklist pub. date: 12 Jan. 1469, based on dating of the Brutus.
Printed in type 2:115R.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹²]: 110 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Probably issued with Goff C-643, Cicero, Brutus, dated 12 Jan. 1469. BSB-Ink catalogues both works together.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding:
18th-century French red morocco with gilt-fillet decoration over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports (by Derome?). Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Initials unrealized, rubrics added in pale red. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. A few contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures visible.
Provenance:
Unidentified early inscription, abraded (leaf [11]/12r); Louis César, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); his sale, Paris, 1783, part II, lot 2253 for fr.603; Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), acquisition and bibliographical notes, 1806 (front fly leaf verso and second fly leaf recto); his sale, Evans, part I, 11 May 1824, lot 921, sold to Pettigrew for £13.13 [for Duke of Sussex?]; Joachim Gomez de la Cortina, Marquis de Morante (1808-1868), armorial book label (second fly leaf verso); his sale, Paris, 21 Feb. 1872, lot 617, sold for fr.583; unidentified book plate, removed (front pastedown); Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris, letter offering book to Prince Massimo (likely Camillo Massimo, principe d'Arsoli, 1803-1873), signed by Antoine Bachelin, 30 March 1872; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased (from Canessa?) by 1907.
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