Naturale historia.

Accession number: 
PML 76430
Author: 
Pliny, the Elder.
Published: 
Venice : Filippo di Pietro, 1481.
Description: 
[294] leaves ; 32.5 x 22.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased as the gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1980.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf ¹a2r): Libro primo della naturale historia di. C. Plinio secondo tradocta i[n] lingua Fiorentina per Christophoro landino Fiorentino al Serenissimo Ferdinando Re di Napoli.
Colophon (leaf K8v): Opus Magistri Philippi Veneti Impressum anno Salutis .M.cccclxxxi. Venetiis.
Printed in type 4:80G.
Collation: a⁸ b⁶; a-h⁸ i-o⁶ p⁸ q¹⁰ r-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-I⁸ K⁸ [L]²: 294 leaves, leaves ¹a1, ¹b6, and [L]/2 blank. Variant collation in BMC and BSB-Ink.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Christophorus Landinus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.7 x 21 cm.

Binding: 
16th-century French light brown morocco over pastepaper boards (32.5 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; yellow edges.
Variant Title: 

Historia naturalis [Italian]

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Illuminated northern Italian foliate penwork initial (leaf ¹a2r), alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Giulio Spina, signature, 15th/16th century (front pastedown); Piero Salviati, signature and inscriptions, 1564 (leaf K8v, front and rear pastedowns and fly leaves); Jean Colbert, Rheims, purchase inscriptions: "Des livres de Jehan Colbert de Reyms achete a Lion le 25 Novembre 1604 p 4abe" and "Di Gio. Colbert comprato in Lione adi 25 octobre 1605" (front fly leaf recto) and shelf mark: C:3:alc: (front fly leaf recto); Andrew Fletcher (1655-1716), of Saltoun, signature (rear pastedown); unidentified shelf marks: no. 422 (front fly leaf recto) and no. 4 (front fly leaf verso); Lathrop C. Harper, cat. 237 (1980), no. 72; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Harper as the gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1980.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Department: 
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