Bod-Inc: C-006
Caesar, Gaius Julius
Commentarii (ed. Johannes Andreas de Bussis).
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Caesar, Gaius Julius: Commentarii de bello Gallico. Books I–VII. Edited by Johannes Andreas [de Bussis]. Caes. Gal; see also C‑004.
[g4v] Hirtius, Aulus: Commentarii de bello Gallico. Book VIII. ‘Belli Gallici commentarius nouissimus'. Caes. Gal.
[h4r] Caesar, Gaius Julius: Commentarii de bello civili. Books I–III. Caes. Civ.
[n2r] Hirtius, [Aulus Pseudo] or Oppius, [Gaius pseudo-]: Commentarii de bello Alexandrino. Book IV. See CTC III 133-4.
[o5v] Hirtius, [Aulus pseudo-] or Oppius, [Gaius pseudo-]: Commentarii de bello Africo. See CTC III 134-6.
[q4r] Hirtius, [Aulus pseudo-] or Oppius, [Gaius pseudo-]: Commentarii de bello Hispaniensi. See CTC III 136-9.
[r4v] [Colophon.]
[r5r] [Bussis], Johannes Andreas [de: Note by the editor.] Botfield 78-9; Bussi 28-9.
[r5v] [Table of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: In Domo Petri de Maximis (Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz), 25 Aug. 1472. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a b10 c12 d–m10 n12 o p10 q8 r6].
References
ISTC: ic00018000
GW: GW 5865;
Hain: HC 4214;
Goff: Goff C‑18;
BMC: BMC IV 16;
Proctor: Pr 3328;
Others: Hillard 539; Oates 1367; Rhodes 490; Sheppard 2641.
LCN: 13888368
Copies
Copy number: C-006(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [r6].
Binding: Eighteenth-century French(?) gold-tooled red morocco; edges gilt; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 298 × 210 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 290 × 189 mm.
Early marginal notes washed out; those still legible mainly excerpting names of places and peoples.
Provenance: Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); sale (1783) pt 1, lot 4906; ‘V. 4906' on last endleaf. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); sale (1789), lot 6173; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 155. Purchased though Thomas Payne in 1790 for £13. 11. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 3.2.
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