IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240293 accession number: PB 21-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 25 February 2020 updated: Tuesday 3 December 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: ISTC ip00801000; H 13105*; GW M34342; Bod-inc P-372; BMC V 176; Oates 1640; IGI 7893; BSB-Ink P-611; CIBN P-469 object type: 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. title: Historia naturalis NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240293 CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1476 - 1476 creation date earliest: 1476 creation date latest: 1476 CREATORS -------- maker: Pliny, the Elder maker: Landino, Cristoforo maker: Jenson, Nikolaus CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Bequest : catalogue of the early printed books bequeathed to the museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S ---