Historia Alexa[n]dri magni regis macedonie de prelijs.
Leo,Archipresbyter,active 10th century.
Husner, Georg,-1505,printer.
Impressa Argentine : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner?)],
anno domini .M.cccc.xciiij [26 May 1494]
Place and date of publication from colophon, printer from Goff.
Colophon (leaf f5 verso) reads: Historia Alexandri magni finit feliciter Impressa Argentine Anno domini .M.cccc.xciiij. Finita altera die Urbani.
With a final blank leaf.
A close reprint of the same printer's editions of 14 October 1486 and 17 March 1489.
Signatures: a⁸ b-f⁶.
Leaves a2-a5 signed a, a2, a3, and a4 respectively.
Text in double columns, 43 lines per column.
Initial spaces, most with guide letters.
Rubricated throughout.
Ink inscription in early hand on verso of final blank leaf: fidite virtuti fortuna fugatior undis / Non manet et certam nescit habere domum.
Hain
Proctor
Goff
GW
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books,
Harman, M. Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign (1979),
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Ink inscription on recto of final blank leaf: fortune virtus pre posset 1580. Bookseller's catalogue number 13665 and price £2.2.0 written in pencil on verso of front free endpaper. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
18th-century red morocco with blind rolled acanthus border inside gilt rolled border of 4 fillets, internal gilt rolled border on front and back boards, gilt rolled board edges, gilt rolled turn-ins and marbled endpapers. With modern reback.
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)
France Strasbourg.