Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Opera.
Call Number
EXKA Incunabula 1465
36.9
Identifier
ark:/88435/zk51vn114
Publisher
[Subiaco, Italy Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 1465.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1465
Extent
[184] leaves. 35 cm.
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 from the library of the Earl of Pembroke; title-page and preface of auction catalogue tipped in.
Princeton copy 1 has bookplate of Grenville Kane.
Princeton copy 2 acquired 3/26/36 from Harper.
References
Hain-Copinger *9806
BMC IV, 2 (IB 17006)
Goff L-1
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Leaf [1a]: Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutio[n]ibus aduersus gentes rubrice p[ri]mi libri incipiu[n]t.
Colophon: Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutionibus aduersus gentes libri septem ... Sub a[n]no d[omi]ni M.CCCC.LXV. ... Indictio[n]e xiii. die uero an[te]penulti[m]a mensis Octobris. In uenerabili monasterio Sublacensi. Deo gratias.
Signatures: 1¹⁰ (last leaf blank, 2-6¹⁰, 7¹², 8-14¹⁰, 15¹², 16-17¹⁰, 18¹⁰ (last two leaves blank).
Large blanks left for Greek quotations in some quires, Greek printing in others suggest that this may have been printed on two presses. -cf. BMC IV 2 (IB 17006). The first dated book printed in Italy and the first book containing printed Greek characters.
Princeton copy 1 without the two leaves of errata found in some copies; leaves 10, 183 and 184 blank.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 in later red goatskin bordered in gold rules and tooling; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Discovery Information

Subject
Incunabula

Physical Characteristics

File Count
386

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7281103b-aecc-4d24-98d3-459279acd90f/manifest