Details

Subject(s)

• Incunabula [Browse]

Printer

• Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477 [Browse]
• Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478 [Browse]

Former owner

• Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656-1733 [Browse]
• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Lathrop C. Harper, Inc [Browse]

Related work(s)

Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320. Divinae institutiones. [Browse]

Notes

• Leaf [1a]: Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutio[n]ibus aduersus gentes rubrice p[ri]mi libri incipiu[n]t.
• Colophon: Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutionibus aduersus gentes libri septem ... Sub a[n]no d[omi]ni M.CCCC.LXV. ... Indictio[n]e xiii. die uero an[te]penulti[m]a mensis Octobris. In uenerabili monasterio Sublacensi. Deo gratias.
• Signatures: 1¹⁰ (last leaf blank, 2-6¹⁰, 7¹², 8-14¹⁰, 15¹², 16-17¹⁰, 18¹⁰ (last two leaves blank).
• Large blanks left for Greek quotations in some quires, Greek printing in others suggest that this may have been printed on two presses. -cf. BMC IV 2 (IB 17006). The first dated book printed in Italy and the first book containing printed Greek characters.
• Princeton copy 1 without the two leaves of errata found in some copies; leaves 10, 183 and 184 blank.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1 in later red goatskin bordered in gold rules and tooling; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Provenance

• Princeton copy 1 from the library of the Earl of Pembroke; title-page and preface of auction catalogue tipped in.
• Princeton copy 1 has bookplate of Grenville Kane.
• Princeton copy 2 acquired 3/26/36 from Harper.

References

• Hain-Copinger *9806
• BMC IV, 2 (IB 17006)
• Goff L-1

OCLC

820125161

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