[Commentarii].

Accession number:

PML 22487

Author:

Caesar, Julius.

Published:

Rome : In domo Petri de Maximis [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 12 May 1469.

Description:

[168] leaves ; 33 x 23.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Incipit (leaf [1]/2r): [G]allia est omnis divisa in partes tres...
Colophon (leaf [17]/4v): Anno Christi .M.CCCC.lxix. die vero .xii. mensis maii. Paulo florente .ii. anno eius .v. rome in domo Petri de Maximis.
Printed in type 2:115R.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-12¹⁰ 13¹² 14-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17⁶]: 168 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [17]/6 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
275 copies printed.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 22 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [17]/6 (blanks); leaf [17]/5 bound at front, leaves [3]/4.9 and [7]/5.6 bound in reverse, leaf [13]/5 bound after [13]/7. All leaves remounted.

Binding:

18th/19th-century English red straight-grained morocco over paper boards (33 x 23.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Gold initials with white-vine decoration with red, green, and blue interior spaces. Red ruling added after leaves remounted. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Modern pencil pagination at top and middle of gutter.

Provenance:

Unidentified armorial, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); William Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), Duke of Devonshire; duplicate sale, Evans, 29 May 1815, for £7.7.0; Henry White (of Lichfield?); J.G. Jennings (of Bernard Quaritch?), collation statement, Aug. 1886 (rear fly leaf); unidentified sale catalogue description (lot 126 for 40 guineas, Quaritch?), tipped-in (front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan Library, brought by J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943) from London, Nov./Dec. 1924.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books