G. Ivlii Caesaris Commentariorvm de bello Gallico liber primvs-[septimvs].
Caesar, Julius.
Oppius, C.,active 1st century B.C.
Bologni, Girolamo,1454-1517,editor.
Manzolo, Michele,active 1476-1481,printer.
Hirtius, Aulus.De bello Gallico.Liber 8.1480
Hirtius, Aulus.Bellum Alexandrinum.1480
Marlianus, Raimundus,approximately 1420-1475.Index commentariorum G. Julii Caesaris.1480
Hamilton, Gavin,1703-1767,bookseller.StEdNL
Tarvissii : Michael Mansolinus,
anno gratiae .MCCCCLXXX. pridie Kalendas Quintilis [30 June 1480]
Title from incipit (leaf a2r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf x5r): Commentariorvm de bello Gallico, civili Pompeiano, Alexandrino Hispaniensi et Africo liber vltimvs finit qvos Michael Manzolinvs Parmensis liberariorvm solertissimvs svo svmptv fieri cvravit. Tarvisii anno gratiae MCCCCLXXX pridie Kalendas Qvintilis.
Edited by Hieronymus Bononius.
Text includes portion of De bello Gallico by Aulus Hirtius and other works variously ascribed to Caesar, Hirtius, or C. Oppius; index of Marlianus also inclucded.
This is the eighth edition of Caesar, and the only Treviso edition in the fifteenth century, beautifully printed by Mansolinus' first press. He was the second printer at Treviso--Harper's cat.
Reprinted, often with the same page-contents, from the edition of Zarotus, Milan, 1477 (IB.25973), with the omission of the dedicatory letter of Philelphus and the addition of the letter and verses by Bononius and of head-lines and marginal summaries. The last sentence of the De bello Hispaniensi is left fragmentary--BM 15th cent.
The first leaf and the last page are blank.
Signatures: a-u⁸·⁶ x⁶ A-B⁸ C⁶.
44 lines and head-line. Printed marginalia. Type: 83 R. Capital spaces.
With manuscript annotations.
ISTC
GW
Goff
Pellechet
BN cat. des incun.,
Polain
BM 15th cent.,
Bodleian Lib. 15th cent.,
BSB-Ink
Proctor
IGI
IDL
Harper's cat.
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Bought by the Advocates Library at Gavin Hamilton's auction 13 February 1738 for £0-1-8.
17th-century? leather with gilt tooled border and central design on front and back boards, original spine with five raised bands forming six gilt tooled compartments laid over modern reback and gilt gauffered edges.
Caesar, Julius
Italy Treviso.