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Plutarchi Vitae.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plutarch.
- Standardized Title:
- Lives. Latin
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Greece.
- Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Incunabula.
- Wooden boards (Binding)
- Clasps (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Carthusians (Roermond, Netherlands) (former owner) (inscription)
- Onze Lieve Vrouw van Bethlehem (Roermond, Netherlands) (former owner) (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 32 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Plvtarchi Vitae.
- Goff title: Vitae illustrium virorum
- Fingerprint:
- umem S.ræ muex nuQu (3) 1496 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Venetiis imp[re]ssae : [Per] Bartolameu[m] de Zanis de Portesio, Anno n[ost]ri saluatoris 1496 die octo Me[n]sis Iunius [8 June 1496]
- Notes:
- A Latin translation of Plutarch's Lives, accompanied by the De historia Romana of Sextus Rufus.
- Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).
- Imprint from colophon on leaf S8r, which reads: Viro[rum] illustrium uitae ex Plutarcho Graeco in latinu[m[ uersae: soletri[que] cura emendatae foeliciter expliciunt: Venetiis imp[re]ssae [per] Bartolameu[m] de Zanis de Portesio Anno n[ost]ri saluatoris. 1496. die octo Me[n]sis Iunius.
- Super-chancery(?) folio. Leaf a3r: 62 lines, plus headline; area of text: 245 (248) x 157 mm. Woodcut initials. Initial space with guide letter on leaf F1r. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Large woodcut illustration (108 x 118 mm.) of Theseus fighting a centaur on leaf a2r; text and illustration on leaf a2r printed within a decorative woodcut border. Register on leaf s10v.
- Signatures: a-r⁸ s¹⁰ A-S⁸.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 313 x 213 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
- Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. underlines, marginal marks and notes in text.
- Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1924.
- Penn Libraries copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Liber carthusie[nsium] in Ruremunda") of the Carthusian house Onze Lieve Vrouw van Bethlehem in Roermond, the Netherlands, on title leaf.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled calf over square-edge wooden boards; remains of 2 leather and metal clasps; evidence of 2 metal catchplates; 5 raised bands on spine; remains of several spine labels.
- Penn Libraries copy has several pinpoint wormholes in leaves at beginning of volume; hole in lower board and central portion of leaves P4-S8 with minor damage to text of leaf S8; spine damaged; pastedowns wanting.
- Cited in:
- Goff P-834
- BM 15th cent. V, p. 432 (IB.23719)
- GW M34488
- BN cat. des incun. P-492
- BSB-Ink. P-628
- Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2259
- Contains:
- Rufus, Sextus. De historia Romana.
- OCLC:
- 249361788
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