[Historia Romana]
Appianus,of Alexandria
Decembrio, Pier Candido,1399-1477.
Maler, Bernhard,active 1476-1478,printer.
Ratdolt, Erhard,1447?-1527 or 1528,printer.
Löslein, Peter,active 1476-approximately 1487,printer.
Appianus,of Alexandria.De bellis civilibus.Latin.1477
Hamilton, Gavin,1703-1767,bookseller.StEdNL: Inc.134
Reichsabtei Schuttern,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.134
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon.
Translated by Pier Candido Decembrio.
Colophon, pts. 1 and 2: Impressum est hoc opus Venetijs per Bernardu[m] pictorem & Erhardum ratdolt de Augusta una cum Petro loslein de Langencen correctore ac socio. Laus Deo. .M. CCCC. LXXVII.
"Pars I comprises the Proemium Appiani, Punica, Syriaca, Parthica (Pseudo-Appianus) and Mithridatica. Pars II comprises the five books of De bellis civilibus, Illyrica and Celticorum epitomen (CIBN)"--ISTC.
Preface of pt. 1 addressed to Pope Nicholas V, of pt. 2 to Alphonsus II of Aragon, King of Naples.
Hain and Pellechet identify pt. 1 as De bellis civilibus and pt. 2 as Historia Romana.
Collation: folio: pt. 1. a-i¹⁰ k-n⁸ o¹⁰ [$5 (-klmn5) signed]; 132 leaves, unnumbered (leaves a1, c2r, o10 blank) -- pt. 2. a-c¹⁰ d¹² e-x¹⁰ [$5 (+d6) signed]; 212 leaves, unnumbered (a1, x10v blank).
With woodcut borders printed in black (pt. 1 leaf a2r and pt. 2 leaf a2r), and 9-line (48 mm) initials, all with white-vine interlacing.
Woodcut border in pt. 2 leaf a2r printed in red.
32 lines, with marginalia (176 x 110 (150) mm. Printed marginalia. Type: 109 R.
Paginated in manuscript.
ISTC
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Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum,
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Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford,
Rhodes, D.E. Catalogue of incunabula in all the libraries of Oxford University outside the Bodleian,
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge,
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library,
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Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France,
Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables,
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique,
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Partially cropped ink inscription at head of recto of leaf a2 of volume 1 in a formal hand apparently of 16th-century Italian provenance: Pervio[?] Joanni Velatrico[?] Nicolasio[?] Laughenio[?] & D. Sophiae Alionino[?] And[rest mutilated]. Ink inscription at foot of same leaf in 17th or 18th-century hand: Mon̄rij Schutterani O. S. Bend. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
Bought by the Advocates Library at Gavin Hamilton's auction 13 February 1738 (quarto no. 18) for £0-3-4.
19th-century green morocco with triple fillet gilt rolled border and central gilt stamped Bibliotheca Advocatorum, gilt tooled spine with red labels and five raised bands, double fillet gilt rolled board edges, gilt rolled turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
18th-century mottled calf.
Italy Venice.