Bod-Inc: (M-227)
Mirabilia Romae
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Title-page.]
[a1v] Mirabilia Romae. Incipit: ‘[M]urus urbis Rome habet rrecentas(!) sexaginta et unam turres . . .’ Explicit: et est ecclesia fratrum minorum See M‑222.
Imprint
Imprint: [Rome: Marcellus Silber, not before 1510]. 8°.
Remarks: As assigned and dated by ISTC, from IGI (which originally assigned to [Eucharius Silber] and dated [c.1498]); Sheppard assigns to [Eucharius Silber] and dates [c.1500].
Collation
Collation: [a8].
Types: Types: 146 G, title; 84 R.
Leaves: 8 leaves.
Line number: 24 lines ([a2r]).
Type area: Type area: 102 ×75 mm (a2r]).
Illustrations: Woodcut on [a1r] showing Rhea Silvia, and the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus.
Remarks: Leaf [a1r]: ‘Mirabilia Rome.' [Woodcut]; [a1v]: ‘¶Mirabilia urbis Rome. | MVrus urbis Rome habet rrecētas ſexagin | ta . . .'; [a8r], l. 22: ‘eſt eccleſia fratrum Minoꝝ. | ¶Deo gratias.’
References
ISTC: im00593850
Hain: R, Supplement, 130;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: IGI 6484; Miedema 198, no. *l 110; not in Pollak, Le guide di Roma; Rossetti, Rome: I: The Guide Books, 18 no. G‑178; Sander 4604, pl. 782; Sheppard 3107.
LCN: 14027773
Copies
Copy number: (M-227)(1)
Bound with A‑269; see there for details of binding.
Size of leaf: 133 × 98 mm.
Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 71 listing theology books in quarto: ‘Mirabilia Romae cum modo confitendi et conjurationis spiritum'; MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 23r mentions ‘Antichita della citta di Roma. 8°'. Presented in 1659.
SHELFMARK: 8° M 40(1) Th. Seld.
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