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Caesar, Gaius Julius

Commentarii de bello Gallico.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1r] [Celsus, Julius pseudo-; Petrarca, Francesco]: Vita Julii Caesaris. Incipit: ‘[G]ay Iuly Cesaris dictatoris exordia. Vt pleraque mortalium fragilia . . .’ Explicit: nec hominibus placuisse etcetera An extract from the author's De viris illustribus. Francisci Petrarchae, Historia Iulii Caesaris, ed. C. E. C. Schneider (Leipzig, 1827), on which closely depends Francesco Petrarca, De viris illustribus, ed. L. Razzolini, Collezione di opere inedite o rare (Bologna, 1874-9), II 2-694; see also G. Martellotti, ‘Il De gestis Cesaris nel Corpus Caesarianum’, Italia medioevale e umanistica, 17 (1974), 281-311 repr. in G. Martellotti, Scritti Petrarcheschi, ed. M. Feo and S. Rizzo, Studi sul Petrarca, 16 (Padua, 1983), 424-56.

[h12r] [Colophon.]

[i1r] Caesar, Gaius Julius: Commentarii de bello Gallico. Books I–VII. Caes. Gal.; see CTC III 87-139.

[p4r] Celsus, Julius [pseudo-; Hirtius, Aulus]: Commentarii de bello Gallico. Book VIII. Caes. Gal.

[q3r] Celsus, Julius [pseudo-; Hirtius, Aulus]: Commentarii de bello Gallico. 8. 51.1-52.4.

[q3r] [Colophon.]

[q3v] ‘Tabula siue registrum librorum commentariorum Julii Cesaris'.

Imprint

Imprint: [Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein?], 1473. Folio.

Remarks: Assigned by Pr and BMC to [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner]. First distinguished by Victor Scholderer, ‘Notes on the Incunabula of Esslingen', Gb Jb (1950), 167-71, 168 as the Printer of the 1472 Aquinas ‘Summa'; Kurt Ohly, ‘Eggestein, Fyner, Knoblochtzer', Gb Jb (1962), 122-35, argues for Heinrich Eggestein as printer.

Collation

Collation: [a–g¹⁰ h–l^12.10 m⁴ n¹⁰ o¹² p¹⁰ q⁶].

Remarks: Collation as BMC, not as GW.

References

ISTC: ic00027000, ip00416000

GW: GW 5874;

Hain: H *4224 (I); H *4226 (II);

Goff: Goff C‑27; P‑416;

BMC: BMC II 512;

Proctor: Pr 2456;

Others: BSB‑Ink C‑24; CIBN P‑170; Hillard 1558; Rhodes 492; Sack, Freiburg, 892, 2745; Sheppard 269.

LCN: 13890277

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