Incipit historia septem sapientu[m] Rome : Peticio uxoris ponciani imp[er]atoris moribu[n]da in lecto iacentis.

Accession number:

PML 256

Uniform title:

Septem sapientes Romae. Latin.

Published:

[Gouda] : [Gerard Leeu], [before 3 June 1480]

Description:

[80] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Kerr collecton, 1903.

Notes:

Title from caption at incipit on leaf a2 recto.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Leeu's type 2D:108G.
Dated on type evidence: see Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries (WILC). See also: De vijfhonderdste verjaring van de boekdrukkunst in de Nederlanden / Le Cinquième centenaire de l'imprimerie dans les Anciens Pays-Bas : Exposition à la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, Bruxelles, 11 septembre - 27 octobre 1973, Bruxelles, 1973, pp. 290-292, no. 127; ILC 1952; ISTC is00448000. Dated to circa 1480-1482 in Sheppard 6896. Dated between 3 June 1480 and 5 September 1482 in HPT II 417 and Bod-inc S-170.
Signatures: a-k⁸: 80 leaves, leaf k8 blank. Leaf a1 unsigned.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
18 illustrations (with repetitions) from 4 woodblocks.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 12.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: k8 (blank).

Binding:

18th-century English gold-tooled blue straight-grained morocco over paper boards (19.5 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, with gold-tooled Roxburghe crest. Yellow paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.

Variant Title:

Historia septem sapientium Romae

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication (Low Countries/Northern France), red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early English inscription, partially trimmed away: "the...[?]ne...of the gost..." (leaf k7v).

Provenance:

John Harman(?), signature, 15th/16th century (leaf a1v); John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804), armorial crest binding, his sale, R.H. Evans, 18 May 1812, lot 6082 (unsold); George Spencer Churchill (1766-1840), Fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, crest on binding, White Knights Library sale, Evans, part II, 22 June 1819, lot 3736, sold for £10.15; John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), purchased from Payne & Foss in 1825, monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 944; John Edward Kerr (Catalogue of manuscripts, early printed books and general works on mediæval romance literature (New York, 1903), no. 28), part of library purchased by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Kerr collection, 1903. .

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books