Geographia[m] multos scripsisse nouimus pater beatissime Paule .II. Venete. Pont. Maxime. tempo[rum] nostroru[m] felicitas et gloria. cu[m] sit doctrine opus.

Accession number: 
PML 34170
Author: 
Strabo.
Published: 
Rome impresserunt : Conradus Sweynheym: Arnoldus Pannartzque magistri, [1469]
Description: 
[242] leaves ; 39.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1937. NPM
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Geographia[m] multos scripsisse nouimus pater beatissime Paule .II. Venete. Pont. Maxime. tempo[rum] nostroru[m] felicitas et gloria. cu[m] sit doctrine opus.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [24]/11r (in verse): Aspicis illustris lector quicunq[ue] libellos / Si cupis artificium nomina nosse: lege. / Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona: forsan / Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum. / Co[n]rardus suueynheym: Arnoldus pa[n]nartzq[ue] magistri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. / Petrus cum fratre Francisco maximus ambo / Huic operi aptatam contribuere domum.
Printed in Sweynheym and Pannartz's type 2:115R.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4¹² 5-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9-23¹⁰ 24¹²]: 242 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [24]/12 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.3 x 28.3 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [24]/12 (blanks).

Binding: 
19th-century, gold-tooled red sheepskin over paper boards (39.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports. White silk pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt and gauffered edges.
Variant Title: 

Geographiam multos scripsisse novimus

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Augsburg rubrication, initials with penwork decoration, minor initials and capital strokes in red; primary initial in blue on gold ground, with painted floral border decoration (leaf [1]/4r). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, sporadic but primarily in last several quires.

Provenance: 
Johannes Molitoris (d. 1482), of St. Moritz parrish, Augsburg, woodcut stamp (i.e. seal, ogival shape) with text: "S. Iohannis plebani ad S. Maricium in Augusta A°. M°.CCCC.7" (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified Rudolph Weigel sale/catalogue, inscription "Chez Weigel a Leipsic 1841 -- 75 thalers" (front endleaf 1 verso); Count Uvarov(?), unidentifiend bookplate in Cyrillic (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, July 1937.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Sheepskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books