Iustini Historici clarissimi in Trogi Pompeii historias exordium.

Accession number:

PML 22553

Author:

Justinus, Marcus Junianus.

Published:

Impressum M[edio]l[an]i : Per [Christ]ofo[rum] Valdarfer Ratisponense[m], anno domini MCCCCLXXVI k[alendas] Iunii [1 June 1476]

Description:

[108] leaves ; 28 cm (quarto)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1925.

Notes:

Title from caption (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [14]/6v).
Printed in Valdafer's type 2:107R.
Collation: [1-12⁸ 13-14⁶]: 108 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto.
For variant see CIBN J-339.
Register at colophon.
Capital spaces, some with guide letters.
PML copy listed under Second Press in Checklist.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.2 x 19.2 cm., trimmed.

Binding:

18th-century Italian sprinkled calf over paper boards (28 x 20 cm.), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Ivstini Historici clarissimi in Trogi Pompeii historias exordivm

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (1 blue on leaf [1]/1r). Annotations: A few marginal notations and manicules in early hands. Contemporary alpha-numeric signatures at outer edge, most trimmed. Contemporary inscription: "nell'età di Bronzo, e di ferro" (leaf [14]/6v at bottom edge).

Provenance:

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, shelf mark label: 12. F. 15. (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper as a duplicate from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 1925.

Summary:

Pompeius Trogus wrote his universal history, Historiae Philippicae, in 44 books. Justinus' reduction is all that now remains of the text (except for a list of the contents). It was widely read during the Middle Ages.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Sprinkled calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books