Valerii Maximi factorum ac dictorum memorabilium liber ad Tyberium Caesarem.
Valerius Maximus.
Oliviero,di Arzignano,commentator.
Petrus,de Bruto, Bishop of Cattaro,-1493,dedicatee.
Guglielmo,da Trino,active 1486-1494,printer.
Freebairn, Robert,-1747,bookseller.StEdNL
Venice : Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis,
12 August 1491.
Title from caption on leaf a1 recto.
Imprint from colophon on leaf G3 recto, which reads in full: Opus Valerii Maximi cum noua ac præclara Oliuerii Arzignanensi uiri p[rae]stantissimi examina-/ta interprætatione. Si quid forte litterarum immutatione: transpositione: inuersione: omissione: offenderis studiose lector: id non uli negligentiæ: sed correctionis difficultati ascribas: quando nihil uerborum prætermissum esse depræhendis: rogat Gulielmus Tridinensis cognomento anima mia: cuius opera hoc opusculum Venetiis fuit descriptum principe Augustino Barbadico .xii. mensis Agusti. M.cccclxxxxi.
Commentary by Oliverius Arzignanensis, surrounding and typographically distinguished from main text.
Woodcut initials throughout.
Printed foliation, running titles and marginal notabilia.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
Signatures: a⁴ ²a⁸ b-y⁸ Z⁸ & ⁸ A-D⁸ E-F⁶ G⁴.
Initials supplied in red. Printed initials coloured red and sometimes red and yellow.
Manuscript title on fore-edge.
BM 15th cent.,
BN cat. des incun.,
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,
Include: Oliverius Arzignanensis. [Letter addressed to] Petrus Brutus, Bishop of Kotor, a2r-v; Petrus Brutus. [Letter addressed to] Oliverius Arzignanensis, a3r-v; [Oliverius Arzignanensis?]. "Compendiosa Vita Valerii Maximi", a4r; [table of contents], a4v; Valerius Maximus. Facta et dicta memorabilia, with commentary by Oliverius Arzignanensis, ²a1r-G3r; colophon, G3r; printer's register, G3r. For full content details, see Bod-inc V-021.
Advocates Library ex libris dated 1705 on front free endpaper. Bought from Robert Freebairn for £5-0-0 Scots.
Early blind stamped leather over wooden boards with remains of single central clasp and contemporary manuscript waste pastedowns.
Valerius Maximus
Italy Venice.