Bod-Inc: A-366
Appianus
Historia Romana [Pars II].
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Table of contents.
[a2v] P[etrus] Candidus [Decembrius: Preface addressed to] to Alphonsus II of Aragon, King of Naples. Incipit: ‘[P]arthorum regem, ut ab Anneo accepimus, sine munere salutare nemo potest . . .’
[a3r] Appianus: ‘De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis.’ Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[S]enatus populusque Romanus mutuis saepenumero contentionibus de legum latione uel si quando debitorum abrogationes agrorumue partitiones fierent uel in comiciis una adessent dissidebant . . .’
[r7v] Zovenzonius, Raphael: ‘Carmen.’ Incipit: ‘Hic est Alexandrinus Appianus | A Candido lingue latine patrono | Romanus. Hunc impressit et Vindelinus | Quem Spira nobilis parens Dedalei | Produxit ingeni faceti lepidique.’ B. Ziliotto, Raffaele Zovenzoni, la vita, i carmi, Celebrazioni degli Istriani illustri, 3 (Trieste, 1950), 160 no. 264.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a10 b8 c10 d–f8 g10 h–m8 n o10 p8 q10 r8].
References
ISTC: ia00931000
GW: GW 2293;
Hain: H *1306;
Goff: Goff A‑931;
BMC: BMC V 160;
Proctor: Pr 4044;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑654; CIBN A‑485; Essling 220; Rhodes 119; Sheppard 3213.
LCN: 14268924
Copies
Copy number: A-366(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [r8].
Binding: Parchment.
Size: 331 × 235 × 38 mm.
Size of leaf: 330 × 221 mm.
Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes.
On [a2v] a six-line initial is supplied in red with pen-flourishing in pale brown; on [a3r] a seven-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-flourishing in red; other initials are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Purchased for £2. 17. 0; see Books Purchased (1822), 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.19.
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