T. Livii Patavini Historici decadis primae liber primvs.

Accession number: 
PML 46896
Author: 
Livy.
Published: 
Taruisii : Ioannes Vercellius impressit, Anno salutis millesimo quadringentesimo octogesimo secundo [1482].
Description: 
[330] leaves ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1955.
Notes: 

Title from caption (leaf c4r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf L5r): Has Titi Liuii Decades a Luca porro q[uam] diligentissime recognitas: Taruisii Ioannes Vercellius impressit Anno salutis Millesimo quadringentesimo octogesimo secundo.
Printed in Rubeus's type 2:82R.
Signatures: a¹° b-q⁸ r⁶; aa-mm⁸ nn-oo⁶; A-K⁸ L⁶: 330 leaves, leaves a1, r6, and L6 blank. Leaf a1 (blank) unsigned, a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Median folio.
Edited by Lucas Porrus.
Includes: Lucius Annaeus Florus: Epitome (a3v-c2v).
"Presumably reprinted from Manzolus' 1480 edition"--BM 15th cent.
Initial spaces, those up to c2r with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 22 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century English blind-tooled calf, in a pastiche of an early style, over heavy paper boards (34.5 x 23 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Variant Title: 

T. Livii Patavini Historici decadis primae liber primus

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout, in 2 distinct hands; pagination and headlines. "Tabula concionum" on leaf inserted between a1-2 (by Pirckheimer?). "Arcus Triumphalis" by Pirckheimer, drawing of the triumphal arch of Septimius Severus in Rome with inscriptions regarding Pompey from Pliny's Natural History, 7.97 and 7.26 (leaf a1v). This drawing is a more carefully rendered version of the same arch Pirckheimer drew while with Albrecht Dürer on a trip to Italy (British Library, Ms. Egerton 1926, fol. 2r).

Provenance: 
Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530), bookplate (by Albrecht Dürer, front fly leaf verso) and drawing/inscriptions, through inheritance to Hans Hieronymus Imhoff (d. 1663); Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1586-1646), purchased Pirckheimer's library from Imhoff in 1636, inherited by his grandson: Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (1628-1684), Bibliothecae Norfolcianae, no. 2687, gave library to the Royal Society, 1667; Royal Society, armorial bookplate (front fly leaf verso) and armorial stamp (spine); Royal Society sale, Sotheby's, 4 May 1925, lot 105; multiple unidentified (probably Royal Society) shelf marks: A Case y.2 (front pastedown) and 89g3, 55.136, 176.d.10, 200.b.6 (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, June 1955.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Retrospective bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books