Geographiam.

Accession number: 
PML 19291
Author: 
Strabo.
Published: 
[Venice] : impresso digitis Videlianis, .M.CCCC.Lxxii [1472].
Description: 
[219] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Geographiam mutlos scripsisse nouimus pater beatissime Paule II. venete pon. maxime: temporu[m] nostrorum felicitas & gloria: ...
Imprint from colophon, leaf [24]/7r (in verse): Anno Domini .M.CCCC.Lxxii. R. Zouenzonius poeta: reuerendissimo d. / Iacopo Zeno episcopo Patauino. / Orbis noscere lector uniuersi / si tractatus cupis: hos emas libellos / Strabonis: tibi nomine dicatos / Zeni pr[a]esulis optimi sacriq[ue]. / Quo nil doctis Eruditiusq[ue] / Nunc antenorei uiden penates: / Impressos digitis Uidelianis.
Printed in De Spira's type 1:110R.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4-5⁸ 6-8¹⁰ 9-10⁸ 11-13¹⁰ 14-15⁸ 16-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20⁶(4+1: Quintusdecimus) 21-22¹⁰ 23-24⁸]: 219 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [24]/8 blank.
Translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
Verse colophon by Raphael Zovenzonius, addressed to Jacob Zenus, bishop of Padua.
PML copy leaf dimensions:
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [24]/8 (blank).
The woodcut Mappa mundi was pasted on the former inner front cover of this volume. The cover containing the map was subsequently removed from the volume and accessioned as PML 19921 when this volume was rebound.

Binding: 
20th-century quarter dark brown goatskin, with decorative paper sides, over wooden boards (41.5 x 30.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Geographia, libri XVI

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary German (probably Augsburg) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, yellow capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures and foliation, with foliation added to tabula at end.

Provenance: 
Anton von Annenberg (1420-about 1480/84), inscription: ".Anthonius. Annenberger. Strabo de situ orbis" and shelfmark: ".111. D. V." (with decorative ball appendages to letterforms) (leaf [1]/1r), Univ. of Glasgow, Sp Coll BD9-a.1 (Tortellus, Orthographia, 1471), with same rubrication and provenance; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal, May 1912.
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