Diodori Siculi Historiarum priscarum a Poggio in Latinum traducti liber primus incipit.

Accession number:

PML 20456

Author:

Diodorus, Siculus.

Published:

Bononiae impressum : [Balthasar Azoguidus], MCCCC72 [1472]

Description:

[104] leaves ; 28.5 cm. (4to and fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Includes Tacitus's Germania.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r).
Place and date of publication from colophon (leaf [m]5r); publisher statement from ISTC.
Printed in Azoguidus's type 2:99R.
Collation: [1²; 2¹⁰ 3-7⁸ 8⁶ 9-12⁸ 13⁶; 14⁸]: 104 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [2]/1, [13]/6 and [14]/7-8 blank. Variant collation (BMC): [1¹⁰ 2-6⁸ 7⁶ 8-11⁸ 12⁶; 13⁸]: 102 leaves, leaves [12]/6 and [13]/7-8 blank.
Most copies with leaf [7]/4.5 (BMC collation: [6]/4.5) in quarto.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto.
Capital spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21.2 cm.
PML copy with leaf [1]/1 (blank) as front pastedow and additional blank bifolium bound in between [1]/1.2, and leaf [14]/8 (blank) as rear pastedown.

Binding:

Contemporary Italian parchment over wooden boards (29.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Manuscript waste used as quire guards.

Variant Title:

Bibliothecae historicae libri VI

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, Italian, gilt initial on red/blue/green ground (leaf [2]/2r), alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Incipit headline copied to leaf [2]/2r, book numbers as headlines. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout, in two different hands.

Provenance:

Unidentified inscription, partially visible under UV: "[Baldinoctus] de Baldinoctis [de Pistorio minimus iuris utriusque ex caritate posuit atque dicativ] 153[2]" (leaf [2]/2r); unidentified shelf marks: P H I (spine label) and Cabin[et] [???]d. (Vernon?), partially covered by Morgan booklabel (front pastedown); George John Warren, Lord Vernon (1803-1866), bookplate (front pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Feb. 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books