Lactantii Firmiani De divinis institutionibus libri septem ; De ira dei: Et Opificio ho[min]is cum Epithomon eiusde[m] foeliciter incipiunt.

Accession number: 
PML 21341
Author: 
Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320.
Published: 
Impressum Venetiis : Per Vincentium benalium, Anno incarnationis dimini [sic] .M. CCCC. LXXXXIII. Vigesimosecundo mensis Marcii. [22 Mar. 1493]
Description: 
[140] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1921.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf v5r).
Printed in Benalius's type 3:107R.
Signatures: A⁸; a-b⁸ c-d⁶ e⁸ f-m⁶ n⁸ o-p⁶ q⁸ r⁶ s⁸ t-v⁶: 140 leaves, leaves A1 and v6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi, bishop of Aleria, and reprinted from Theodorus de Ragazonibus's 1490 edition according to BM 15th century.
Printer's register on leaf v5r.
With printed marginalia and spaces left blank for initials, with guide-letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 20.9 cm.
PML copy with quire A (table of contents) bound last.

Binding: 
17th-century Italian vellum over paper boards (31 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Opera

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Illuminated initial, probably modern (leaf a2r); remainder of rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout, mainly NB marks and keywords, with manicules.

Provenance: 
William Rawlinson (1640-1703), signature and printed armorial, with purchase inscription: "Leghorn £0:5:0" (lear a1r); Robert Hull, MD, signature in rectangular stamp, 19th/early-20th century (front fly recto); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Tregaskis, June 1921.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books