Herodiani Historiae de imperio post Marcum vel de suis temporibus liber primus [-octauus] / e Graeco translatus Angelo Politiano interprete ...

Accession number: 
PML 451
Author: 
Herodian.
Published: 
Bononiae : Plato de Benedictis, Anno Domini .M.CCCC.LXXXXIII. pridie kale[ndas] septembres [31 August 1493].
Description: 
[68] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from head of leaf aa3r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ii4r: Quod quidem opus novum et aureum Plato de Benedictis acuratissime Anno Domini .M.CCCC.LXXXXIII. pridie kale[ndas] septembres Bononiae q[uam] pulcherrimis his Caracteribus impressit.
Printed in Plato de Benedictis's type 1:113R.
Signatures: aa-hh⁸ ii⁴: 68 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translator's letter to Magnanimus on leaf aa1v; dedication to Innocent VIII, written in 1487, on leaf aa2.
"This is the first authorized edition, that dated 'Romae ... die xx Iunii 1493' (vol. iv, p. 137, IB.19353/2) containing neither the letter to Magnanimus nor the marginalia"--BM 15th cent.
Title printed in red; marginal notes; printer's device at end of colophon.
Initial spaces and guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimension: 28.5 x 19.5 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century French gilt-tooled citron morocco over paper boards (29 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Historiae de imperio post Marcum

Provenance: 
Unidentified price codes, in pencil, 18th/19th century (rear fly leaf); unidentified shelf mark/lot number, printed on label: 6152 (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code: w/wm/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books