C. Plinii Secundi junioris liber illustrium virorum incipit
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Type of record: Book
Title: C. Plinii Secundi junioris liber illustrium virorum incipit
Other titles: Liber illustrium virorum; C. plinii secvndi ivnioris liber illvstrivm virorvm
Classmark: BC Incunabula/PLI
Creator(s): Victor, Sextus Aurelius
Additional creator(s): Pliny the Younger (Other); San Jacopo di Ripoli (Convent : Florence, Italy) (Printing house); Berio, Giovanni Domenico marchese di Salza (1791) (Former owner); Berio, Francesco Maria marchese di Salza (1765-1820) (Former owner); Dudley and Ward of Dudley, William Ward Viscount (1750-1823) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Pliny; San Jacopo di Ripoli (Convent : Florence, Italy); Berio, Giovanni Domenico; Berio, Francesco Maria; Dudley and Ward of Dudley, William Ward; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Apvd.Sanctvm.Iacobvm.de Ripoli; Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli
Publication city: Impressvm Florentiae [Florence]
Date(s): M.CCCC.LXX.VIII. [1478]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [32] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/95023
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008368149705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-d⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon in capitals on d8v reads: Impressvm. Florentiae . Apvd.Sanctvm.Iacobvm.de Ripoli. M.CCCC.LXX.VIII.
Authorship unknown. Sometimes attributed to Pliny the Younger, but generally to Aurelius Victor from the sixteenth century. (M.M. Sage, The De Viris Illustribus: authorship and date, Hermes 108, (1980), pp. 83-100).
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01387000.
Features
The first leaf is mounted.
Bindings
Binding of full vellum over pasteboard. On the smooth spine is a pared brown leather lettering piece gold-tooled with the words: Eninc. episto. et alt. opusc. There is worm damage to the spine. The leaf edges are coloured green and the book has a green silk ribbon register. Size: 196 x132mm. Leaf size: 187 x 123mm.
Bound with 3 other publications. Volume contents: 1. Pliny, C: Liber illustrium virorum, 1478. -- 2. Laudivio de Vezzano: Epistolae magni Turci, c.1475. -- 3. Suetonis: De grammaticis et rhetoribus, 1478. -- 4. Albertus Magnus: De mirabilibus mundi, c.1478.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris Marchionis Salsae. This is the bookplate of Giovanni Domenico Berio, marchese di Salza (d. 1791) and his son Francesco Maria (1765-1820).
Armorial bookplate on the back pastedown with the motto: Comme je fus. This is the bookplate of William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward of Dudley (1750-1832).
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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Profile: Francesco Maria Berio, marchese di Salza (1765-1820)
Biography of Francesco Maria Berio, marchese di Salza, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: Giovanni Domenico Berio, marchese di Salza
Biography of Giovanni Domenico Berio, marchese di Salza, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward (1750-1823)
Biography of William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.