Pii. II. Pontificis Maximi. Historia rerum ubique gestarum. Cum locorum descriptione non finita Asia Minor incipit

Description

Signatures: a-f¹⁰ g-h⁸ i-l¹⁰.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on l10r reads: Pii.ii. Ponti[ficis] maximi historiae rerum ubiq[ue] gestaru[m] prima pars finitur : & impressioni Venetiis dedita : per Iohannem de colonia sociumq[ue] eius Iohannem manthen de Gherretzem anno millesimo:cccclxxvii.


Printed with 34 or 35 long lines to a full page.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


The first leaf is blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00730000.


Indexed in: Goff P-730.

Features

On the back pastedown and a leaf of vellum bound in at the back are various notes in Spanish in black ink manuscript, including a list of months and numbers, sixteenth- or seventeenth-century.


The first major initial on leaf a2r had been supplied gold and decorated with a design of tracery and stylised foliage in green, blue and red. A decorated border in the same colours extends down the inner margin and along the top and bottom of the text and contains two roundels, one with a human head, possibly a soldier wearing a helmet, and the other containing a cherub playing a lute or similar musical instrument. At the centre of the decorated border in the lower margin is a coat of arms featuring a shield with, on the left, a black lion rampant, and on the right, chevrons in black and gold. The shield is set against a blue ground and surrounded with a circle of gold and a green laurel weath. To either side of the coat of arms are angels in robes with red ties at the waist.


Major initials supplied in blue.


Paragraph markers supplied alternately in red and blue.


Leaves 1, 3, 88 and 106 (with the colophon) have been torn out.


Several leaves have been cut down, but without damaging the text.


Some worm damage.


Bindings


Late fifteenth-century binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frames of multiple fillets containing repeating patterns of stylised foliage. The central panel is decorated with a large lozenge featuring an interlace design with smaller lozenges either side and surrounded by small floral motifs. The spine has four raised bands and is decorated with blind-tooled triple fillets in a cross-cross pattern. There is writing in black ink manuscript on the fore-edge, probably: pio papa. There are the remains of two decorated metal clasps on the fore-edge and also evidence that two more clasps were once attached to the covers at the head and tail of the book. Size: 293 x 210mm. Leaf size: 285 x 203mm.

Provenance

Inscription in black ink manuscript in the outer margin leaf a1r: Delle Conv[ento] de [...] De Segovia.


Embossed library stamp in the outer margin leaf a1r, partially rubbed out causing the paper to tear, probably from the Biblioteca Provincial de Segovia.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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