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Lot 152

ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS
Summa historialis, sive Chronicon, 3 vol., Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 31 July 1484

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS

Summa historialis, sive Chronicon, 3 vol., 234 (of 236), 258 (of 260), 274 (of 276) leaves, all without initial and final blanks, 68 to 69 lines, Gothic letter, 2 columns, capital spaces, some old marginal ink annotations (mostly to volume 1), sprinkling of single wormholes to opening leaves of each volume (reducing soon to 2 or 3 single holes), dampstain to lower blank margins (resulting in slight loss to 12 leaves in the third volume), browning to approximately 40 leaves but generally clean, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century vellum, title in ink on spines [ISTC ia00778000; BMC II, 426; Goff A778; GW 2072; HC 1159*], folio (393 x 278mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 31 July 1484

Footnotes

First edition of Antoninus's compendium of history. Saint Antoninus, or Anthony of Florence (1389-1459) was Archbishop of Florence from 1446 until his death. Drawing on examples of exemplary lives Antoninus mentions several of his contempories, including Poggio Bracciolini and Leonardo Bruni.

Provenance: Eivind Hassler, bookplate.

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