[Vitae XII Caesarum].

Accession number:

PML 22404

Author:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.

Published:

Rome : [Johannes Philippus de Lignamine], August 1470.

Description:

[128] leaves ; 34 x 23.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1924.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [13]/6v): Cai Suetonii Tranquilli de .xii. Cesarum vitis liber ultimus feliciter finit. absolutus Rome in pinea regione via pape Anno a Christi natali .M.CCCC.Lxx. Sextili me[n]se Pauli autem Veneti .ii. Pont. Max. anno sexto.
Printed in types 1:125R and 125Gk.
Collation: [1¹² 2-11¹⁰ 12-13⁸]. 128 leaves, leaves [13]/7-8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by J.A. Campanus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.2 x 22.8 cm.

Binding:

17th/18th-century Italian parchment over stiff boards (34 x 23.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Vitae Caesarum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated (Roman?) white vine initial (leaf [1]/2r), with remainder of initials at each Life gold on red/blue/green ground and an illuminated armorial (leaf [1]/2r) in a northern Italian (Verona?) style. Annotations: Rubrics written in margin in a contemporary Italian hand. Moderate marginal notations throughout text in a contemporary Italian hand (different than rubrics).

Provenance:

Unidentified Italian armorial: two gold chalices on either side of a red bend sinister on a blue shield (leaf [1]/2r); Libraire Damascene Morgand, Paris, inscription with price abraded (Hoskier's purchase?); H.C. Hoskier, signature and notes, Nov. 1902 (front fly leaf); his sale, Sotheby's, 29 June 1908, lot 18; Pierpont Morgan Library, purhcased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1924.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Annotations (Provenance)

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books