Details

Subject(s)

• Apologetics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486 [Browse]
• Cornazzano, Antonio, 1429-1484 [Browse]

Printer

• Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480 [Browse]

Former owner

• Morgan, Junius Spencer [Browse]
• Buturlin, Dimitrīĭ Petrovich, graf, 1763-1829 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Annotations (Provenance)—Italy—15th century [Browse]

Notes

• Translated by George of Trebizond.
• Title from beginning of George of Trebizond's letter to Pope Nicholas V (leaf 1/1r).
• Verse colophon by Antonio Cornazzano (leaf 14/10r):Artis hic: & fidei splendet mirabile numen: / Quod fama auctores: auget honore deos. / Hoc Ienson ueneta Nicolaus in urbe uolumen / Prompsit: cui foelix gallica terra parens. / Scire placet tempus? Mauro christophorus urbi / Dux erat. aequa animo musa retecta suo est. / Quid magis artificent peteret Dux: christus: et auctor? / Tres facit aeternos ingeniosa manus. / .M.CCCC.LXX.
• Signatures: [1-6¹⁰ 7¹² 8-14¹⁰].
• Initial spaces.
• Printed on sheets of "median"-size paper.
• GW records some variant readings on leaves 1/1r and 14/10v.
• Foliated in pencil.

Provenance

• Armorial bookplate "Comte D. Boutourlin"; clipping of entry "296" from De Bure "Catalogue" pasted on verso of first front free endpaper; 'Editio Princeps' and several catalog citations in ink mss on verso of third front free endpaper; stamped "University Library, May 15, 1899, Princeton, N.J." on front pastedown.
• Purchased by Junius S. Morgan from Labitte, Em. Paul et Cie (Paris) on 3 March 1892 for 90 francs -- Receipt in curatorial documentary files.
• Princeton accession number 118715 on catalogue card.

References

• Hain, 6699*=6701.
• Proctor, 4066.
• Goff, E-118.
• GW, 9440.
• BM 15th cent., V, 167 (IB.19612).
• ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ie00118000.
• Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1551-1553.

Place name(s)

Italy Venice.

Other title(s)

• Evsebivm Pamphili de euangelica praeparatione latinum ex graeco beatissime pater iussu tuo effeci
• De euangelica praeparatione latinum ex graeco beatissime pater iussu tuo effeci

OCLC

1340462583

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