Bod-Inc: D-070
Diodorus Siculus
Bibliothecae historicae libri VI.
Analysis of Content
[*1v] [Table of contents.]
a2r Poggius Florentinus: [Introductory letter.] ‘Prohemium', [addressed to Nicolaus V, Pont. Max.] Incipit: ‘[N]ullus antea quantum vis praeclarus rerum scriptor . . .’
a2v [Table of contents.]
a2v Diodorus Siculus: Bibliothecae historicae libri VI. Translated by Poggius Florentinus. Incipit: ‘[M]agnas merito gratias rerum scriptoribus homines debet . . .’
q1r Tacitus, [Publius] Cornelius: Germania. Tac. Ger.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Andreas de Paltasichis, 31 Jan. 1476/7. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*2] a10 b–k8 l6 m n8 o6 p q8.
References
ISTC: id00211000
GW: GW 8375;
Hain: HC *6189;
Goff: Goff D‑211;
BMC: BMC V 251;
Proctor: Pr 4421;
Others: BSB‑Ink D‑149; Sheppard 3554.
LCN: 14815883
Copies
Copy number: D-070(1)
Binding: Sixteenth-century(?) parchment over pasteboards, sewn onto five raised cords.
Size: 282 × 204 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 276 × 190 mm.
Occasional marginal annotations, extracting key words, and some ‘nota' marks in black ink.
Provenance: Marcello de Vero (sixteenth century?); a cancelled inscription on [*1r]: ‘Del Sor Marcello de Vero'. Naples, Benedictines, for the use of Jacobus; an inscription on [*1v]: ‘SSm Seuerini et Sossii de Neap. Cong. Cas. Ad usum Domini Jacobi á Neap.’ Purchased from R. F. Sweetinburgh for £1. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 7 and Library Bills, 1829-32, no. 366.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.22.
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