Bod-Inc: P-373
Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the elder)
Historia naturalis [Italian] Historia naturale (trans. Christophorus Landinus).
Analysis of Content
a2r Landinus, Christophorus: ‘Prohemio' [dedicated to] Ferdinand I of Aragon, King of Naples. See P‑372.
a4r Plinius Secundus, Gaius: Historia naturale. Translated by Christophorus Landinus. ‘Prefatione'. Incipit: ‘[D]iterminai o giocondissimo imperadore con epistola . . .’
a5r [Table of contents.]
a12r ‘Registrum'.
b1r Plinius Secundus, Gaius: Historia naturale. ‘Sel mondo ha termini et se e uno. Cap. i.’ Incipit: ‘[E]l mondo et questo elquale per altro nome a noi piace chiamare cielo . . .’ On the translation see P‑372.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 12 Sept. 1489. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a12 b–q8 r ſ6 A–N8 O P6.
References
ISTC: ip00803000
Hain: HCR 13107;
Goff: Goff P‑803;
BMC: BMC V 431;
Proctor: Pr 5156;
Others: Sheppard 4162. Microfiche: Unit 2: Classics in translation.
LCN: 14014320
Copies
Copy number: P-373(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century calf, the spine gold-tooled; with red-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 302 × 225 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 297 × 207 mm.
Manuscript title-page on a1r. Occasional marginal notes, mainly providing corrections to the text, in an early hand.
On a2r a nine-line initial ‘D' is supplied in green.
Provenance: Jean Baptiste, chevalier de Bearzi (nineteenth century); sale (1855), lot 1014. Purchased at his sale for £0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1855), 48.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.11.
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