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PLATINA, Bartholomaeus (1421-81). Vitae pontificum. [Treviso:] Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 10 February 1485.
Super-chancery 2° (297 x 194 mm). Collation: a10 b-q8 r6 (a1r blank, a1v author's dedication to Pope Sixtus IV, a2r text, r5v colophon, r6 blank). 135 leaves (of 136, without the final blank); early 6-leaf MS index of popes arranged chronologically, alphabetically, and by place of birth (small hole in final leaf). 52 lines. Type 2:82R. 2- to 10-line initial spaces. (Light spotting, occasional very light staining, minor marginal worming in final quire.) Early half brown goatskin over wooden boards, blindstamped with ropework tools, two (of 4) brass fore-edge catches (lacking leather clasps, rebacked, endpapers renewed).
Provenance: Leonardo Casani, inscription on flyleaf (partly deleted; marginal annotations in several hands (very slightly trimmed).
Third edition of Platina's famous history of the lives of the popes, dedicated to his patron, Pope Sixtus IV, among whose many contributions to the arts and letters was the establishment of the Vatican library with Platina as librarian. BMC suggests that this edition may equally well have been printed at Venice, since the paper, marked with a crescent, was used in both cities at this date.
HC *13048; BMC VI, 897 (IB. 28435); CIBN P-445; IGI 7859; Pellechet Ms. 9504; Polain(B) 3188; Goff P-770.
Super-chancery 2° (297 x 194 mm). Collation: a10 b-q8 r6 (a1r blank, a1v author's dedication to Pope Sixtus IV, a2r text, r5v colophon, r6 blank). 135 leaves (of 136, without the final blank); early 6-leaf MS index of popes arranged chronologically, alphabetically, and by place of birth (small hole in final leaf). 52 lines. Type 2:82R. 2- to 10-line initial spaces. (Light spotting, occasional very light staining, minor marginal worming in final quire.) Early half brown goatskin over wooden boards, blindstamped with ropework tools, two (of 4) brass fore-edge catches (lacking leather clasps, rebacked, endpapers renewed).
Provenance: Leonardo Casani, inscription on flyleaf (partly deleted; marginal annotations in several hands (very slightly trimmed).
Third edition of Platina's famous history of the lives of the popes, dedicated to his patron, Pope Sixtus IV, among whose many contributions to the arts and letters was the establishment of the Vatican library with Platina as librarian. BMC suggests that this edition may equally well have been printed at Venice, since the paper, marked with a crescent, was used in both cities at this date.
HC *13048; BMC VI, 897 (IB. 28435); CIBN P-445; IGI 7859; Pellechet Ms. 9504; Polain(B) 3188; Goff P-770.