Bod-Inc: B-570
Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus
De primo bello Punico [Italian] Della prima guerra punica.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: [Preface.] ‘Prologo'. La Prima guerra punica, ed. Ceruti, 1-4.
[a2r] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Della prima guerra punica. La Prima guerra punica, ed. Ceruti, 4-246.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Printer of Basilius, ‘De vita solitaria', c.1471]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–g10 h i8].
References
ISTC: ib01256000
GW: GW 5604;
Hain: HCR 1560;
Goff: Goff B‑1256;
BMC: BMC V 186;
Proctor: Pr 5653;
Others: CIBN B‑892; Sheppard 3311.
LCN: 13983271
Copies
Copy number: B-570(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century blind and gold-tooled calf; the spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns; watermark of the endpapers: snake on staff with the letters ‘S W'.
Size: 240 × 170 × 26 mm.
Size of leaf: 233 × 158 mm.
On [a1r] an Italian eight-line initial is supplied in gold surrounded by white vine-stems defined in red, blue or green. In the lower margin of [a1r] a coat of arms within a wreath (see below). Principal initials are supplied in gold on a red, blue, and green ground.
Provenance: Unidentified coat of arms within a wreath: argent, a tree eradicated, supporting a green climbing vine proper, the top enflamed. On the front endleaf an inscription: ‘Hoc saltem munere donetur amicitia. Apr. 1. 1821. Ph. W.’ Purchased for £1. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.58.
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