Co[m]mentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinum Aureum Lucii Apuleii. : Mox in reliqua Opuscula eiusdem Annotationes imprimentur..
Apuleius.
Beroaldo, Filippo,1453-1505,commentator.
Varadi, Petrus,Archbishop of Colocza,1450-1501,dedicatee.
Calcagnini, Celio,1479-1541.
Faelli, Benedetto,-1523,printer.
Beroaldo, Filippo,1453-1505.Apuleii vita.
Nisbet, John,Sir,1609?-1687,former owner.StEdNL
Impressum ... Bononiae : a Benedicto Hectoris i[m]pressore solertissimo - Adhibita su[m]ma diligentia - ut in manus hominu[m] ueniret q[uam] emendatissimum,
anno salutis Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo Cal. Augusti. [1 August 1500]
Title from title page on leaf a1 recto.
Imprint from colophon on leaf XX4 verso, which reads in full: Impressum hoc opus Bononiae a Benedicto Hectoris i[m]pressore solertissimo - Adhi-/bita su[m]ma diligentia - ut in manus hominu[m] ueniret q[uam] emendatissimum. Anno salutis Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo Cal. Augusti. Inclyto Io. Bentiuolo secundo status huiusce Bononiensis Florentissimi habenas fœlicit-/er Modera[n]te.
Commentary by Philippus Beroaldus surrounding and typographically distinguished from the main text.
Woodcut printer's device B on leaf XX6 recto. For Benedictus Hectoris's device B, see BM 15th cent., VI, 840.
Printed running titles, marginal notabilia and foliation.
Some copies have a sixteen-leaf "Tabula vocabulorum et historiarum", printed later than the body of the book: see BM 15th cent., VI, 846.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
Signatures: ²A-²B⁶ ²C⁴; a⁴; A-Z⁶ & ⁶ [Con]⁶ [Rum]⁶ AA-XX⁶. Leaf a1 unsigned.
With manuscript annotations in an early hand.
[Title to the table of contents and address to the reader], ²A1r; [Tabula vocabulorum et historiarum], ²Av-²C4v ; Title page, a1r; Philippus Beroaldus. [Letter addressed to] Petrus [de Varda], Archbishop of Colocza, a2r-a4v; Philippus Beroaldus. "In commentarios Apuleianos prefatio", A1r-A2r; Philippus Beroaldus. Vita Lucii Apuleii, A2r-v; Philippus Beroaldus. "Scriptoris intentio atque consilium", A2v; Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis. Asinus aureus, sive Metamorphosis, Books 1-11, A3r-XX4v, with commentary by Philippus Beroaldus, A2v-XX4v; colophon, XX4v; [List of errata addressed to the reader], XX5r; Coelius Calcagninus, Epigramma, 12 endecasyllables, XX5v; Philippus Beroaldus. Endecasyllabon ad Asinum aureum, 21 endecasyllabon, XX5v; printer's register and device, XX6r.
BM 15th cent.,
Bod-inc
BSB-Ink
Goff
GW
Hain-Copinger
ISTC
Oates
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Ink inscription on title page: S Jo Nisbet. This may be Sir John Nisbet of Dirleton but the book cannot be identified in A catalogue of excellent and rare books, to be sold by way of auction the 24th. day of July. Which was the library of the late Lord Dirltoun sometime Advocate to His Majesty deceased (Edinburgh, 1690). Acquired by the Advocates Library not after 1702.
17th-century? leather, spine with five raised bands forming five gilt tooled compartments and one with title label which appears to be of a later date, blind rolled board edges and speckled edges.
Apuleius.
Latin fiction
Mythology, Classical, in literature
Metamorphosis in literature
Italy Bologna.