Title from text incipit on p. [5].

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2-17⁶ 18⁸ 19⁶ 20⁸].

Dedication begins, p. [2]: Hieronimus Squarzaficus Alexandrinus doctissimo viro Platine S.P.d. ...

"Prohemium Platine in vitas pontificu[m] ad Sixtum iiij. pontificem maximu[m]": p. [3].

Text in double columns.

Initial spaces.

Hain-Copinger, 13047*

Proctor, 2005

Goff, P-769

BM 15th cent., II, 420 (IB.7224)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ip00769000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 683.

Purchase; 7 February 1921; Treat fd.

Autographs "G. Bromasira [?] ... 1861" and "Albrecht Vermehren ... 1894"; from the library of C.H.J. Vermehren, with his bookstamp.

Imperfect: 18 leaves at end wanting and supplied in manuscript with note, "Eruditorum vulgus Platinae ne nomen quidem novit, nedum historiam Pontificum, difficile eam ob causam mihi fuit restituere ex codice typis expresso quae dira vel stulta manus huic libro rapuit, quem inter cimelia referendum puto et propter vetustatem, et quia ex Avi mei bibliotheca ad meam devenit. Tandem studio officiosi Amici, Domini Joachimi Diederici a Neilich reverendi Minist: candidati dignissimi, quem discipulum qvondam habui, effectum, ut integritati meum Platinam reddere possem. Anno MDCCXLIX d. xx. Aprilis. Joachimus Urbanus Schulzius Minist. Candidatus. Melza-Megalopolitanus."

Large initial on [a]3r added in red and blue; initials elsewhere, paragraph marks, and underlinings added in red; signature marks added in ms.

Bound in 19th-century half black cloth and marbled boards;quire [s] misbound in order 1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 7, 6, 8.