Vitae illustrium virorum.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Plutarch.
Uniform title:Vitae. Latin
Imprint:Venice : Giovanni Ragazzo, for Lucantonio de Giunta, 7 Dec. 1491.
Description:[2], ii, cxlv, cxliiii leaves. woodcuts: borders, initials, publisher's device. 33 cm. (fol.)
Language:Latin
Series:Robert S. Connors Basic Program Collection
Subject:Greece -- Biography.
Rome -- Biography.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
Biography.
Brass bosses (Binding)
Wooden boards (Binding)
Manicules (Provenance)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy 2 forms part of the Robert S. Connors Basic Program Collection
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2777313
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Plutarchi Vitae
Plvtarchi Vitae
Other authors / contributors:Connors, Robert S., former owner.
Robert S. Connors Basic Program Collection.
Provenance:Gift; Robert S. Connors; 2020
Copy 1: Contemporary marginal annotations throughout in one hand; initials hand-colored in brown.
Copy 2: Former owner's inscription: Laur. Salusti restaurabat, A.D. 1863.
Copy 2: Former owner's inscription: Roberti Renamati [added in different hand: Canthiani], Lib. XV.
Copy 2: Former owner's armorial stamp on title page: no text, possibly Italian.
Copy 2: Manuscript marginal annotations throughout in at least three hands; manicules.
Copy 1: Binding: contemporary vellum over boards; evidence of ties, now lost; 20th-century[?] rebacking and red morocco lettering pieces; bottom edge title: Vita Plutarco.
Copy 2: Binding: calf over wooden boards; modern rebacking; blind tooling; brass bosses in corners and center of boards; four clasps redone along with spine.
Notes:Imprint from colophon; publisher's name from device on final leaf recto.
Signatures: a-r⁸ s¹⁰ A-S⁸.
Hain-Copinger 13129
Proctor 5350A
Goff P-833.
ISTC (online) ip00833000
GW M34484

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