Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[E]usebium Pamphili de euangelica praeparatione latinum ex graeco beatissime pater iussu tuo effeci.
Call Number
EXI 2657.371.502q
Identifier
ark:/88435/k930c2368
Publisher
[Venice] : Nicolas Jenson, 1470.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1470
Extent
[142] leaves ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
Armorial bookplate "Comte D. Boutourlin"; clipping of entry "296" from De Bure "Catalogue" pasted on verso of first front free endpaper; 'Editio Princeps' and several catalog citations in ink mss on verso of third front free endpaper; stamped "University Library, May 15, 1899, Princeton, N.J." on front pastedown.
Purchased by Junius S. Morgan from Labitte, Em. Paul et Cie (Paris) on 3 March 1892 for 90 francs -- Receipt in curatorial documentary files.
Princeton accession number 118715 on catalogue card.
References
Hain, 6699*=6701.
Proctor, 4066.
Goff, E-118.
GW, 9440.
BM 15th cent., V, 167 (IB.19612).
ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ie00118000.
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1551-1553.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Translated by George of Trebizond.
Title from beginning of George of Trebizond's letter to Pope Nicholas V (leaf 1/1r).
Verse colophon by Antonio Cornazzano (leaf 14/10r):Artis hic: & fidei splendet mirabile numen: / Quod fama auctores: auget honore deos. / Hoc Ienson ueneta Nicolaus in urbe uolumen / Prompsit: cui foelix gallica terra parens. / Scire placet tempus? Mauro christophorus urbi / Dux erat. aequa animo musa retecta suo est. / Quid magis artificent peteret Dux: christus: et auctor? / Tres facit aeternos ingeniosa manus. / .M.CCCC.LXX.
Signatures: [1-6¹⁰ 7¹² 8-14¹⁰].
Initial spaces.
Printed on sheets of "median"-size paper.
GW records some variant readings on leaves 1/1r and 14/10v.
Foliated in pencil.

Discovery Information

Subject
Apologetics—Early works to 1800
Annotations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
300

Institutional Information

Collection
In Principio: Europe's First Printers, 1450-1470
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