Iustini historici clarissimi in Trogi Pompeii historias exordium.
Justinus, Marcus Junianus.
Trogus, Pompeius.
Petri, Philipo di,active 1472-1482,printer.
Roxburghe, John Ker,Duke of,1740-1804,former owner.StEdNL
[Venice] : Impressum per Philippum Condam Petri in Ueneciis ducante Iohanne Mozenico inclito duce.,
M.cccc.lxxviiii. die xii decembris. [12 Dec. 1479]
Caption title (leaf a2r, signed a).
Title in Walsh, Oates, BM: Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-c⁸ d⁶ e-l⁸ m⁶ n¹⁰.
Leaves a2-a5 signed a-a4; i1, i2 missigned i2, i3
First leaf blank.
36 lines; roman type.
Last line, leaf a2r (signed a) reads "HISTNRIAS" for Historias.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Washed out marginal annotations.
Initials supplied in red. Initial on recto of a1 supplied in blue on green background with red flower. Numerals supplied in red at head of each page.
BM 15th cent.,
IGI
Proctor
Hain
Goff
GW
Oates
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Roxburghe arms gilt stamped on front and back boards. Cutting pasted to front pastedown from A catalogue of old books, in the ancient and modern languages ... Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 in which this book was number 8295 and selling for £4 4s. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
18th or early 19th-century red morocco with double fillet gilt rolled border surrounding gilt rolled border with corner pieces and Roxburghe arms on front and back boards, gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
History, Ancient
Italy Venice.