Enee Siluii Piccolominei Senen[sis]. Cardinal[is] Sancte Sabine ad Alfonsum Aragonum Regem Clarissimum in Historiam Bohemicam prefatio incipit Lege foeliciter.

Accession number: 
PML 79816
Author: 
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Published: 
Rome : Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia, and Johannes Nicolai Hanheymer, de Oppenheym, partly for Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus, 10 Jan. 1475.
Description: 
[74] leaves ; 26 x 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1989.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [8]/7r): Impressorib[us] M[a]g[ist]ris Johanne Nicolai Hanheymer de Oppenheym & Johanne Schurener de Bopardia. Rome Anno Jubilei et a Nativitate Jhesu Christi .M.CCCC.LXXV. Die .X. me[n]sis Januarii. Sede[n]te Clementissimo Sixto Papa Quarto Anno ei[us] foelici Quarto Regnante Invictissimo ac Illustrissimo Principe et d[omi]no d[omi]no Friderico Tertio Ro[manorum]. Imp[er]atore semp[er] augusto Imperii eius Anno Vigesimoquarto.
Printed in type 1a:101R.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6-8⁸]: 74 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [8]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto half-sheets
Variant colophons are known, some naming the publisher (Pellechet, Walsh), others without the final death's head woodcut (Sexton). For other variants see CIBN and Hillard.
PML copy is variant without final line of colophon and skull woodcut.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.8 x 18.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [8]/8 (blanks).

Binding: 
Modern full reddish-brown goatskin over boards (26 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Pencil notes citing Dibdin on Spencer's copy (rear fly leaf).

Provenance: 
Eric Lord Hyde Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 161, booklabels (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's (NY) 8 April 1981, lot 143; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Laurence Witten on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1989.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books