Bod-Inc: C-399
Columna, Guido de
Historia destructionis Troiae [Italian] Historia di Troia.
Analysis of Content
a2r Columna, Guido de: Historia destructionis Troiae [Italian] Historia di Troia. Translated by Filippo Ceffi. Storia della guerra di Troia di M. Guido giudice dalle Colonne Messinese. Volgarizzamento del buon secolo, ed. Michele Dello Russo (Naples, 1868), 1-551; see Giuliana Carlesso, ‘La fortuna della “Historia destructionis Troiae” di Guido delle Colonne e un volgarizzamento finora ignoto', Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, 157 (1980), 230-51, at 233-4.
o4v [Note on the composition of the work.] Storia della guerra di Troia, ed. Dello Russo, 553-5.
o5r [Colophon.]
o5r ‘Tauola'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Antonio di Alessandria della Paglia et Socii, 1481. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–g8 h6 i–n8 o6. Leaf a1 is unsigned; a2 is signed a, a3 is signed aii.
References
ISTC: ic00782000
GW: GW 7242;
Hain: HC 5523;
Goff: Goff C‑782;
BMC: BMC V 297;
Proctor: Pr 4600;
Others: Sheppard 3726-7.
LCN: 14420696, 14420776
Copies
Copy number: C-399(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1.
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century Italian gold-tooled parchment; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 293 × 200 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 284 × 187 mm.
Manuscript foliation: ‘no 1 - no i07'.
Provenance: On front endleaf a cancelled inscription: ‘Gio. Giacomo T[ ] med[ ]' (eighteenth/nineteenth century?); probably to be identified with Prince Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (†1831). Armorial book-plate removed. Purchased for £2. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1840), 9.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.32.
Copy number: C-399(2)
Wanting the blank leaf a1.
Binding: Parchment over pasteboards.
Size: 290 × 202 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 283 × 192 mm.
A few early marginal annotations.
Provenance: Giulio Bernardino Tomitano (1761-1828); inscription on front pastedown: ‘Di Giulio Bernardino Tomitano'. Purchased for £3. 3. 0; see Books Purchased (1841), 10.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.50.
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