Epistolae familiares.

Accession number:

PML 24781

Author:

Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.

Published:

[Reutlingen] : [Michael Greyff], [not after 1478]

Description:

[216] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1927.

Notes:

Also recorded as: [Esslingen: n.pr.] and [Strassburg: The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)].
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-18⁸¹⁰ 19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-22¹⁰ 23⁸ 24⁶]: 216 leaves, leaf [24]/6 blank.
Includes: Preface to reader by Nikolaus von Wyle (leaf [1]/1v); Pius II, De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia (leaf [13]/6r), Oratio habita in conventu Mantuano anno 1459 (leaf [23]/2v), and Descriptio urbis Viennensis (leaf [24]/3v).
On the printer attribution, see Sack, Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek ... in Freiburg im Breisgau, 2885 and A. Schmidt, "Technische Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde," Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1927): 17 (assigning to Strassburg), and V. Scholderer, "Adolph Rusch and the Earliest Roman Types," The Library IV, 20 (1939): 47 (assigns to Esslingen). A blind impression of the Epistolae familiares is found in the Bull of Sixtus IV printed by Greyff at Reutlingen, 17 June 1478, see BMC II 575 (IB.10630) and notes in BMC I reprint.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML Checklist number based upon Strassburg attribution.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.2 x 21.4 cm
Printed in Greyff's type 3:103R.

Binding:

Contemporary blind-tooled "half" calf over beech boards (31.2 x 22 cm), bound in Germany. 2 catchplates on top board, clasps wanting. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, quire of 6 leaves added to beginning, includes front pastedown. Modern leather corners. Contemporary manuscript quire numbers, bottom right corner of first recto.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue lombards, red paragraph marks and capital strokes; initial on leaf [1]/2r unrealized. Annotations: Two contemporary inscriptions, illegible (first fly leaf).

Provenance:

Unidentified ink library stamp, abraded (leaf [1]/1r); Emil Hirsch Antiquariat, Kat. LIV, [about 1925], lot 1 (cut out description pasted to leaf [24]/6r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Hirsch Antiquariat, July 1927.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books