[Historiae Alexandri Magni].

Accession number:

PML 286

Author:

Curtius Rufus, Quintus.

Published:

[Venice] : Vindelinus de Spira, [about 1471]

Description:

[154] leaves ; 29.5 x 20 cm. (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [16]/3v): Loquitur lectur ad Vindelinum Spirensem / Artificem qui .Q.C. reddit in lucem. Vindeline mee prius hic redditurus in auras / Spiritus: & corpus linquet inane meum. / Q[uam] tua nobilitas virtus: atq[ue] inclita fama: / Pectore labatur candide amice meo.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: [1-15¹⁰ 16⁴]: 154 leaves, leaf [16]/4 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 19.6 cm.

Binding:

Modern full red goatskin over boards (29.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns (reusing previous fly leaves) and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red initials, the first with northern Italian (Venice?) red filigree penwork. Annotations: Some contemporary marginal notations throughout, most washed/faded. Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures. "Q Curtius" on fore edge; illegible inscriptions on top and bottom edges.

Provenance:

Unidentified inscription, abraded, not legible under UV (leaf [1]/1r); Charles Spencer (1675-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: C 4: 55 (front pastedown); John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, part II, Puttick & Simpson, 17 April 1882, lot 3606; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf) and bibliographical notes: No. 6a, 28/3/98 and price code: ww/l/e (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books