Pharsalia.

Accession number:

PML 77679

Author:

Lucan, 39-65.

Published:

Louanij : [Johann Veldener], [approximately 1475-1476]

Description:

[206] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1982.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Hoc tempore beatissime Pauli .ii. venete pontifex Maxime bonam primum valitudinem ab omnipotenti deo per castissimas tuas preces opto...
Imprint from colophon, leaf [21]/6r: Quisquis amat nosse ciuilis vulnera belli / Fraternas clades et atrotia fata parentum / Hos legat impresso louanij et artis amator / Laudibus auctorem meritis ad sydera tollat.
Printed in Veldener's type 3:97G.
Date from Hellinga, Printing types.
Collation: [1-20¹⁰ 21⁶]: 206 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 21 cm.
PML copy is 42 leaves only: leaves [2]/9-10 and quires [6-9¹⁰]. Moisture staining around the top/fore edge corners.

Binding:

19th-century half-cloth, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary Low Countries rubrication, blue initials with red penwor decoration, alternating red (C-shaped) and blue (wedge-shaped) paragraph marks, and red capital strokes. Annotations: Extensive contemporary interlinear and marginal notations throughout. Contemporary headlines at top-right corners.

Provenance:

Nathan Comfort Starr (1896-1981), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Anderson Galleries, 15 May 1935, lot 394; Swann Galleries, 20 Oct. 1982, lot 213; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, Oct. 1982.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Marbled papers (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books