Svetonivs Tranqvillvs cvm Philippi Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici commentariis.

Accession number:

PML 128200

Author:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.

Published:

Venetiis : Per Simonem cognomento Beuilaqua Papiensem, MCCCCLXXXXVI [1496].

Description:

[354] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 1999.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf aa1r).
Contains the De vita Caesarum, with commentaries surrounding the text.
Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf S5r): Co[m]mentaria Philippi Barualdi necnon Marci Antonii Sabellici In Suetonium Tranquillu[m] Feliciter Venetiis exacta. per Simonem cognomento Beuilaqua Papiensem. Anno Christianae Salutis MCCCCLXXXXXVI. Finis. [Printer's mark]
Signatures: aa⁴; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-R⁸ S⁶: 354 leaves, leaf S6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 20.7 cm.

Binding:

18th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (32 x 22 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Etienne Boyet for Prince Eugene of Savoy. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Suetonius Tranquillus cum Philippe Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici commentariis

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red and blue initials, red paragraph marks, capital in-fill, and highlighting of printed initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Lines of text sporadically crossed out.

Provenance:

Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), armorial binding (after 1713), passed at his death to his niece: Princess Victoria of Savoy (1683-1763), who sold the Savoyard library (1737) to: Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740) and entered: Vienna, Imperial Library, duplicate stamp (leaf aa1r), sold ca. 1800; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, Sept. 1999.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books