[Historiae].

Accession number: 
PML 24295.2
Author: 
Polybius.
Published: 
Rome : Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 31 December '1473' [i.e. 1472]
Description: 
[154] leaves ; 29 x 22 cm (fol.)
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Nicolai Perotti in Polybii historiaru[m] libros prohemiu[m] incipit feliciter ad Nicolaum .V. pontificem maximu[m].
Colophon (leaf [18]/8r): Aspicis illustris lector quincunq[ue] libellos / Si cupis artificum nomina nosse: lege. / Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona: forsan / Mitiget ars musis inscia verba virum / Conradus suueynheym: Arnoldus pannartzq[ue] magistri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. M.CCCC.LXXIII. die jovis ultima decembris.
For the date, see BMC IV p.ix and C.F. Bühler, "False Information in the Colophons of Incunabula," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 114 (1970), 398.
Printed in type 2:115R.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4-11⁸ 12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18⁸]: 154 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Nicolaus Perottus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 20.3 cm.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Illuminated initials with foliate decoration (South German or Austrian?--Ss with an incredibly bulbous lower bowl), alternating red and blue decorative paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary Germanic marginal notations throughout.

Provenance: 
Unidentified armorial: crown with a diagonal line through middle (leaf [1]/4r); unidentified monogram: M.G.A.I.S., 1571 (binding stamp); unidentified monogram: A.A.Z.S, 1676 (binding stamp); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Wilfred Voynich, March 1927.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Illumination
Illumination
Department: 
Printed Books