In amphitheatrvm Caesaris.
Martial.
Merula, Giorgio,-1494.
Pliny,the Younger
Fazini, Marco Lucido,-1503.
Pincius, Pyrrhus.
Pinzi, Filippo,active 1490-1530,printer.
Calderino, Domizio,1447-1478.Commentarii in Martialem.
Smith, Joseph,1674-1770,former owner.StEdNL
Uenetiis : Per Philippum Pi[n]cium,
.M. cccc. xci. Die . xxix. Martii. [29 March 1491]
With the commentaries of Domizio Calderino and Giorgio Merula.
Title from text incipit (leaf a3v).
Begins (leaf a2r): Epistola Domitius Calde. Io. Fran. Lodovici prin. Mantuani filio salutem.
Imprint from colophon (leaf y1v): Hoc per Philippum pi[n]cium de caneto uenetiis impressu[m] opus foeliciter explicit .M. cccc. xci. Die . xxix. Martii.
Signatures: a-x⁸ y⁴.
First and final leaves are blanks.
Errors in foliation: XXXVI and CVIII repeated; LXXXX, CXXXVII-VIII, CLVI, CLXIII, and CLXVII misnumbered LXXXVIII, CXXXV-VI, CLVIII, CLXII, and CLVIII respectively.
Text surrounded by 62 lines of commentary.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Includes a letter of Pliny the Younger to Cornelius Priscus, and poems by Lucidus Phosphorus and Johannes Pyrrhus Pincius.
Goff
GW
ISTC
Hain-Copinger
Proctor
Walsh, J. E. 15th cent. printed books,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Microfiche.
Armorial bookplate of Joseph Smith British Consul at Venice on front pastedown. Bought by the Advocates Library, probably at the Bibliotheca Smithiana sale, day 6, lot 1302 for £0-15-0., although that is described as Venice 1492.
18th-century? parchment over boards.
Epigrams, Latin
Italy Venice.