Bod-Inc: S-200
Silius Italicus
Punica, et al.
Analysis of Content
a2r Silius Italicus: Punica. Sil. According to Delz, Punica, p. xlix, the text in this edition is derived from that of Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [not before 5 Apr. 1471]. On the transmission generally see S‑197.
x9v [Polenton, Sicco]: ‘Auctoris uita'. Incipit: ‘Silius Italicus ciuis Romanus ac poeta illustris . . .’ Siccon Polentonus, Scriptorum Illustrium Latinae Linguae Libri XVIII, ed. B. L. Ullman (Rome, 1928), 121-2. The first sentence of Polenton's text is abridged in this version. See CTC III 361 (no. 1).
Imprint
Imprint: Parma: [Printer of Hieronymus, ‘Epistolae', 1480], 16 Nov. 1481. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a10 b–u8 x10.
References
ISTC: is00506000
Hain: HC 14737;
Goff: Goff S‑506;
BMC: BMC VII 942;
Proctor: Pr 6859;
Others: CIBN S‑259; Sheppard 5670.
LCN: 14051197
Copies
Copy number: S-200(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled Dutch morocco; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark.
Size: 292 × 197 × 36 mm.
Size of leaf: 283 × 177 mm.
An erased signature in the lower margin of a2r.
Provenance: Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part III, lot 4010; in the annotated catalogue marked down to van den Burgh for Fl. 41. Purchased for £7. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 8.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 1.3.
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