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Rome, Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1468. In 2nd. 342x230mm. Large illuminated page at the opening of the volume, decoration in white girari with red, green and blue racemes, within a gold leaf frame, large initial M in gold leaf, at the bottom noble coat of arms with shield on a red background within a crown of 'laurel, on the outer margin a green bird, in the text 8 illuminated initials of various sizes in gold leaf and white girari, a smaller (but always coeval) ninth initial in a different style, two delicate antique restorations on f.42 and 61 on the white margin, small woodworm holes on the final pages, restoration on the white margin of the last page of the colophon, some slight halos, genuine and extraordinarily fresh copy. 18th century rigid parchment binding with double insert on the spine for the title and date of the work.
On the back cover, ex libris ofPrince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, (1773-1843); a long pencil note at the end of the volume states that it was purchased on 14 August 1854 "ate the sale rooms of Sotheby's. It was one of the late Pickering Stock. It had fromerly graced the Library of the late Duke of Sussex". Another pen note, also on the back cover, declares the purchase in 1819.
Specialist Notes
Copy of illustrious provenance, Duke of Sussex, enriched by an illuminated page and nine illuminated initials.
Contains: De divinis institutionibus; Of the wrath of the gods; De opificio dei vel de formatione hominis; De phoenix carmen. Venantius Fortunatus: De resurrectione Christi. After the brief experience in Subiaco, at the request of Giovanni Andrea Bussi in 1467 the two German prototypers moved to Rome and set up a printing workshop "in domo Petri et Francisci de Maximis iuxta Campum Florae". That is, at Palazzo Massimo behind Piazza Navona. The first volume printed in Rome, of which a certain date is known, is the work containing Cicero's Epistolae ad familiaris, which is certainly followed by four other editions: the second by Lactantius (the one offered here in the lot), the Speculum by Zamorense, the second edition of Saint Augustine and the Treatises and Epistles of Saint Jerome, published in two volumes. All these editions are almost always published in folio, some of surprising size and with a circulation ranging between 275 and 300 copies each. Goff L2; HC 9807*; Pell Ms 6985 (6937); CIBN L-2; Delisle 1045; Polain(B) 4507; IDL 2863; BEI 3412; IGI 5620; IB Port 1059; Martin Abad L-1; Günt(L) 2520; Kind(Göttingen) 2307; Rhodes (Oxford Colleges) 1066; Bod-inc L-003; Sheppard 2599; Pro 3291; BMC IV 4; BSB-Ink L-3; GW M16542