Somnium Scipionis.

Accession number:

PML 25338

Author:

Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius.

Published:

Impressi Venetiis [Venice] : opera et impensa Nicolai Jenson Gallici, M.CCCC.LXXII [1472]

Description:

[166] leaves ; 33.5 x 23 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1928.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS EX CICERONIS LIBRO DE REPUBLICA EXCERPTUM.
Colophon (leaf [20]/7v): MARCOBII AURELII THEODOSII VIRI CONSULARIS ET ILLUSTRIS SATURNALIORUM LIBRI IMPRESSI VENETIIS OPERA ET IMPENSA NICOLAI JENSON GALLICI .M.CCCC.LXXII.
Printed in type 1:115R and 10:115Gr.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-12⁸ 13¹⁰ 14-20⁸]: 166 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [20]/8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.2 x 22.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over heavy paper boards (33.5 x 23 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

In somnium Scipionis expositio

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Austrian (Salzburg?) illuminated initials with marginal foliage, some blue with filigree decoration, at book incipits; alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks. Red headlines (with pencil guides). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Vienna, Faculty of Philosophy, inscription: "Facultatis philosophiae vienne 1686" (leaf [1]/2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Wilfred Voynich, Feb. 1928.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Paste papers (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books