In Pompeii trogi historias

Accession number:

PML 20942

Author:

Justinus, Marcus Junianus.

Published:

Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 1470.

Description:

[140] leaves ; 27.5 x 19.5 cm. (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1v): JUSTINI HISTORICI IN POMPEII TROGI HISTORIAS LIBER PRIMUS INCIPIT.
Colophon (leaf [14]/10r): Historias veteres peregrinaq[ue] gesta revolvo / Justinus. lege me: sum trogus ipse brevis. / Me gallus veneta Jenson Nicolaus in urbe / Formavit: mauro principe Christophoro. JUSTINI HISTORICI CLARISSIMI IN TROGI POMPEII HISTORIAS LIBER XLIIII. FELICITER EXPLICIT. .M.CCCC.LXX.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-14¹⁰]: 140 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 18.3 cm.

Binding:

18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over heavy paper boards (27.5 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports for the Earl of Pembroke. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Woodcut border and white vine initial illuminated and colored by hand (leaf [1]/1r), illuminated initials on red/blue/green ground. Later armorial added to border roundel: crenelated tower with two crows (leaf [1]/1r). Annotations: Contemporary/early 16th-century marginal notations mainly in first-half of the text, with elaborate manicules.

Provenance:

Padua, Canons Regular of the Lateran, S. Giovanni Baptista di Verdara, inscription citing bequest by Celsus de Verona, partially inked out: "Iste liber e[st] [canonicorum regularum] S[an]c[t]i Aug[ustini]: q[uo] vocant[ur] [??? Lateranensis] deputat[us] ad usum dictorum [????] t[antu]m: q[uo] morant[ur] [in monasterio sancti Joannis de Viridaria Padua]. Quem v[ero] emit venerabil[em] pater D. Celsus de Verona por dicti monasterii: ex denariis librorum i[n] medicina & ph[ilosoph]ia aliis facultatib[us] q[uae] M[agister] Joannis Marchanove venditorum. Q[uare] o[mn]es pro ip[s]o m[agistro] Joanne n[ec]no[n] p[ro] emptore deum pie orent. .M CCCC LXXI." (leaf [14]/10r); Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733), binding (with spine label inscription, leaf [1]/1r) and shelfmark: Kc.29. (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 1914, lot 118 for £205 to Archer [for: Charles Fairfax Murray]; unidentified sale catalogue description (rear fly leaf); Bernard Quaritch, inscription by Pruitt, 18 July 1919 (rear fly leaf); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1920.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books