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JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus (3rd century?). Epitome in Trogi Pompeii Historias Philippicas. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1470.
Royal half-sheet 4° (271 x 189mm). Collation: [1-1410] (1/1r preface, 1/1v Liber primus, 14/10r colophon, 14/10v blank). 140 leaves. 30 lines. Type 1:115R. First page ruled in red, first 3 initials supplied in red (the decoration on the first leaf obliterated), other initial spaces blank, one printed guide-letter on fo.81 (9/1r), pinholes visible in some leaves. (Small tear on fo.7 affecting some text and red initial repaired, tiny wormholes repaired including one in fo.30 affecting a few letters.) Early-19th-century English gold-tooled straight-grained blue morocco, cover panelled with single fillet, corner decoration, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, green silk ribbon marker, gilt edges, (slightly rubbed at extremities).
Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations and a scroll below colophon washed out; Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-99), with his monogram on front flyleaf; Meerman, but apparently not the copy sold in the 1824 sale, The Hague, where it is described as in red leather (22 June 1824, pt.III, p.105, lot 113). A pencilled note by Botfield says this Cracherode-Meerman copy sold for #21.0.0, but he probably paid #15.15.0, the price also pencilled in.
FIRST EDITION. This epitome of the Historia Philippica by Pompeius Trogus was made about the third century. A great universal history, Pompeius Trogus's work of the first century A.D. described the Macedonian empire founded by Philip and greatly expanded by Alexander. It is particularly valuable for its concentration on the history of peoples outside Italy. Since his work does not survive, Justinus's epitome is the most significant witness to Hellenistic historiography left to later ages.
This is one of the four earliest books, all dated 1470, printed by Nicolaus Jenson, second printer at Venice. His roman type was justly famous, and Bruce Rogers considered that with it "the roman letter was done once, perfectly, and for all time."
HR 9647; BMC V, 167 (IB. 19615); Goff J-613; Pell 6890; IGI 5552; Flodr, Iustinus 1
Royal half-sheet 4° (271 x 189mm). Collation: [1-1410] (1/1r preface, 1/1v Liber primus, 14/10r colophon, 14/10v blank). 140 leaves. 30 lines. Type 1:115R. First page ruled in red, first 3 initials supplied in red (the decoration on the first leaf obliterated), other initial spaces blank, one printed guide-letter on fo.81 (9/1r), pinholes visible in some leaves. (Small tear on fo.7 affecting some text and red initial repaired, tiny wormholes repaired including one in fo.30 affecting a few letters.) Early-19th-century English gold-tooled straight-grained blue morocco, cover panelled with single fillet, corner decoration, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, green silk ribbon marker, gilt edges, (slightly rubbed at extremities).
Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations and a scroll below colophon washed out; Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-99), with his monogram on front flyleaf; Meerman, but apparently not the copy sold in the 1824 sale, The Hague, where it is described as in red leather (22 June 1824, pt.III, p.105, lot 113). A pencilled note by Botfield says this Cracherode-Meerman copy sold for #21.0.0, but he probably paid #15.15.0, the price also pencilled in.
FIRST EDITION. This epitome of the Historia Philippica by Pompeius Trogus was made about the third century. A great universal history, Pompeius Trogus's work of the first century A.D. described the Macedonian empire founded by Philip and greatly expanded by Alexander. It is particularly valuable for its concentration on the history of peoples outside Italy. Since his work does not survive, Justinus's epitome is the most significant witness to Hellenistic historiography left to later ages.
This is one of the four earliest books, all dated 1470, printed by Nicolaus Jenson, second printer at Venice. His roman type was justly famous, and Bruce Rogers considered that with it "the roman letter was done once, perfectly, and for all time."
HR 9647; BMC V, 167 (IB. 19615); Goff J-613; Pell 6890; IGI 5552; Flodr, Iustinus 1