Historiae adversus paganos.

Accession number: 
PML 123
Author: 
Orosius, Paulus.
Published: 
Augsburg : Johann Schüssler, approximately 7 June 1471.
Description: 
[133] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Incipit (leaf [2]/2r): Pauli horosii presbiteri historiographi discipl[in]i sancti. Augustini episcopi. adversum cristiani nominis querulos libri numero septe[m] incipiu[n]t...
Colophon (leaf [14]/3v): Beati Pauli horosii presbiteri in [christ]iani no[min]is querulos libri n[o]vo septem finiunt feliciter, Per Iohanne[m] Schüβler florentissime urbis Auguste concive[m] impressi, Anno a p[ar]tu virginis Marie salutifero. M° q[ua]dringe[n]tesimo et septuagesimop[ri]mo. Circit[er] iunii nonas septi[m]as.
Printed in Schüssler's type 1:117G.
Collation: [1⁶(+6*: antoninus vicesimus); 2-13¹⁰ 14⁶]: 133 leaves, leaves [14]/4-6 blank. Variant collation in GW.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 19.1 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [14]/4-6 (blanks).

Binding: 
18th/19th-century half red goatskin over paper boards with sides covered in marbled paper (29.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; edges stained yellow.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and L-brackets. Large lombards with red filigree penwork decoration. Annotations: Heavily annotated in a contemporary/early-16th century hand but washed/bleached. Headline with roman numeral for book number.

Provenance: 
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code l/-/- (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
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