Historia naturalis
Author:
Pliny, the Elder
Translator:
Landino, Cristoforo
Printer:
Jenson, Nikolaus
Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis, translated by Cristoforo Landino
In Italian
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476
Illuminated in Venice, c. 1476
Ills: [a6]r (book 1); [e2]r (book 3); [e10]v (book 4);
Paper, Folio, 422 x 285 mm, 413 fols. (of 415 fols., wanting the first [a1] and last [V10] blank leaves; fols. [h4] and [h7] from another copy), early foliation in brown ink and modern foliation in pencil, running titles, red flourishing added to printed rubrics
Type: Roman and Greek
BINDING: eighteenth century, Italian mottled vellum over pasteboards, red edges
CONTENTS
fol.[a6]r Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis, translated by Christoforo Landino
ORNAMENTATION
Thirty-eight painted initials [10-12 ll.]: two pink initials with foliate motifs on blue ground for Prohemio (fol.[a2]r) and book I (or Prefatione, fol.[a6]r); thirteen gold initials on coloured grounds pierced by white vine-scroll for books II, III, V, VIII, XII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII, XXII, XXIV, XXV (on gold ground), XXXVI; seventeen faceted initials in pink, green or blue on foliate monochrome grounds for books IV, VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XIII, XVII, XIX, XXIII, XXVIII (floral motif repainted in black), XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVII; four green or white initials with pearls, jewels or camaieu d’or motifs on purple or blue grounds for books XX, XXI, XXVII, XXIX; two initials pierced by interlacing stems for books XXVI and XXXIII; alternate red and blue penwork Roman capitals [2 ll.]; running titles added by hand in red and blue; printed guide letters.
ISTC ip00801000; H 13105*; GW M34342; Bod-inc P-372; BMC V 176; Oates 1640; IGI 7893; BSB-Ink P-611; CIBN P-469
History note: Still in Italy in 1506 (contemporary note on the discovery of the statue of Laocöon and his sons in Rome in January 1506, fol. [S6]v); Frank McClean (1837-1904) (bookplate inside upper cover); his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
Production date: AD 1476
Accession number: PB 21-2020
Primary reference Number: 240293
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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