De historia Ro[mana].

Accession number: 
PML 389.2
Author: 
Rufus, Sextus.
Published: 
Rome : Eucharius Silber, 23 August 1491.
Description: 
[10] leaves ; 21.5 x 15 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a1v): Sexti Ruffi viri consularis Valentiano Augusto de Historia Ro[mana] Libellus incipit.
Colophon (leaf b4r): Sexti Ruffi viri consularis Valentiano Augusto de historia Ro. Libellus finit. Impressus Rome per Eucharium Silber al[ia]s Franck. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.xci. mensis Augusti die .xxiii.
Printed in type 2:88R.
Collation: a⁶ b⁴: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Edited by Angelus Tiphernas.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century English gilt-tooled blue straight-grained morocco over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain orange paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
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Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf marks: 52 (front fly leaf) and xI C 52 (62 crossed out, replaced with 52, third front fly leaf recto), inherited by his son, Cornelius Inglis, M.D. (1824-1907), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, 11 June 1900, lot 168, to Tregaskis for £87; Tregaskis(?) sale catalogue description, no. 217 for 130 guineas (front fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 329, 14/2/1901 and price code: wmm/-/- (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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