Bod-Inc: L-175
Lucianus Samosatensis
De praecedentia Alexandri, Hannibalis et Scipionis.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] [Lucianus Samosatensis]: De praecedentia Alexandri, Hannibalis et Scipionis. [Translated by Johannes Aurispa.] Incipit: ‘Alexander. Me o libice preponi decet melior equidem sum . . .’ Translation of ed. Macleod 77,25(12), Νεκρικοὶ διάλογοι ; see Mattioli 207; the translator is named in the heading.
Imprint
Imprint: [Padua: Printer of Lucianus (H *10276), 2 Jan. 1482]. 4°.
Remarks: Pr assigns to [Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, c.1475], cf. Dennis E. Rhodes, La tipografia nel secolo xv a Vicenza, Santorso e Torrebelvicino (Vicenza, [1987]), 29.
Collation
Collation: [a4].
References
ISTC: il00326700
Hain: H *10276;
BMC: BMC VII 926;
Proctor: Pr 7138;
Others: BSB‑Ink L‑242; Sheppard 5611.
LCN: 14503618
Copies
Copy number: L-175(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco, with gilt-edged leaves and marbled paper boards.
Size: 210 × 157 × 6 mm.
Size of leaf: 206 × 150 mm.
The author's name is supplied in black ink in a seventeenth-century(?) hand.
Provenance: London, Royal Society; stamp on [a4r]: ‘Roy. Soc. sold'. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2048. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. P 5.25.
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