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EUSEBIUS Caesariensis (c.260-c.340). De evangelica praeparatione. Latin translation by Georgius Trapezuntius. Edited by Hieronymus Bononius. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 31 May 1497.
Median 2° (305 x 207mm). 108 leaves (collation as GW). Roman type 6:106/108, 45 lines and headline, printed and MS guide-letters. Illuminated initial opening text in gold on red ground within blue frame, capital strokes in the table and on first text leaf in red, blue, green, yellow and purple, other initials and paragraph marks alternating in red and blue, printer's device of St. Jerome at end coloured in red, blue, yellow and purple. (A few small wormholes, small stain at some upper margins.)
BINDING: contemporary fawn blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, bound for Antonio Pillone by Belluno Bindery B, the sides decorated with an outer border of repeated knotwork tool, an inner border of repeated griffin tools, the central panel with two roundels and a lozenge, spine compartments diapered with multiple fillets, 5 brass bosses to each cover (one missing), four clasps, a pair of vellum endleaves (all clasps except one missing, head of spine worn, some slight worming). FRESH, STRONG IMPRESSIONS OF THE TOOLS. Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations and corrections; Antonio Pillione (binding, note on the author on flyleaf); Odorico Pillone (fore-edge); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 21.
VECELLIO FORE-EDGE PAINTING: full-length figure of Eusebius bearded and in profile to the right, dressed in red robe and hat, abbreviated author's name lettered horizontally. Other edges grey marbled with red.
BMC V, 376 (IB. 22392); GW 9444; HC *6706; IGI 3758; Pellechet 4645; Goff E-122.
Median 2° (305 x 207mm). 108 leaves (collation as GW). Roman type 6:106/108, 45 lines and headline, printed and MS guide-letters. Illuminated initial opening text in gold on red ground within blue frame, capital strokes in the table and on first text leaf in red, blue, green, yellow and purple, other initials and paragraph marks alternating in red and blue, printer's device of St. Jerome at end coloured in red, blue, yellow and purple. (A few small wormholes, small stain at some upper margins.)
BINDING: contemporary fawn blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, bound for Antonio Pillone by Belluno Bindery B, the sides decorated with an outer border of repeated knotwork tool, an inner border of repeated griffin tools, the central panel with two roundels and a lozenge, spine compartments diapered with multiple fillets, 5 brass bosses to each cover (one missing), four clasps, a pair of vellum endleaves (all clasps except one missing, head of spine worn, some slight worming). FRESH, STRONG IMPRESSIONS OF THE TOOLS. Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations and corrections; Antonio Pillione (binding, note on the author on flyleaf); Odorico Pillone (fore-edge); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 21.
VECELLIO FORE-EDGE PAINTING: full-length figure of Eusebius bearded and in profile to the right, dressed in red robe and hat, abbreviated author's name lettered horizontally. Other edges grey marbled with red.
BMC V, 376 (IB. 22392); GW 9444; HC *6706; IGI 3758; Pellechet 4645; Goff E-122.