T. Livii Decades
Publisher: Philippus Pincius for Luca Antonio Giunta
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: History
Other titles: Titi Livi periochae. 1495.
Work titles: Ab urbe condita
Notes: Edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus.

Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ b⁴ c-ℓ⁸ m-n¹⁰ A-K⁸ L¹⁰ aa-ii⁸ (ii8 blank).

Errors in foliation: leaves XCIIII and CXXVII misnumbered CXCIII and CXXVI respectively.

Colophon (leaf CCLIIIv): T. Liuii patauini Decades expliciunt. Venetiis per Philippum Pincium Mantuanum: summa cura & diligenti studio Impressae. Anno ab Incarnatione domini .M.ccccxcv. iii. nonas nouembris. Imperante Serenissimo Augustino Barbadico Venetiarum duce foelicissimo.

Woodcut architectural border on leaves [I], [CLXXXIII], and [CLXIII], with an inset figure in the tympanum of a scholar at a reading-desk, and enclosing, respectively, a large woodcut of a battle scene, Hannibal's Oath, and the reception of the ambassadors of Ptolemy VI by the Roman Senate. The same border appeared in the 1490 Malermi Bible (Goff B-644).

Text contains 171 woodcut ill., many signed "F". The ill. previously appeared in the Italian translation of Livy pub.: Venice: Joannes Rubeus, for Luca Antonio Giunta, 11 February 1493 (Goff L-255).

In some copies, the woodcut device of Luca Antonio Giunta (Husung 153) is red-printed on leaf CCLIIIv.

Includes (leaves [1]v-[2]v) a prefatory letter by Giovanni Andrea Bussi.

"L. Flori Epitoma decadvm qvattvor decim. T. Livii Patavini Historici in centvm et qvadraginta libros distinctvm" [i.e. the Periochae, here incorrectly identified as the Epitomae of Lucius Annaeus Florus]: leaves [2]v- [16]r.

Hain-Copinger, 10141*.

Proctor, 5308.

Goff, L-247.

Sander, 3998.

BM 15th cent., V, 496 (IB.23660).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), il00247000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2453-2454.

Bequest; William King Richardson; 1951; 50R-42.

Without rubrication; woodcuts uncolored. Inscription (17th century?) on flyleaf at end.

Imperfect: blank leaf wanting.

In this copy, Giunta's device is red-printed on leaf CCLIIIv.

Bound in 18th-century stiff vellum.
Table of contents: title: Title page; A1r; Johannes Andreas de Bussis]. [Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max., A1v-A2v; Titi Livi Periochae [incorrectly identified here as Lucius Annaeus Florus's Epitomae], A2v-a8r; [Table of books], a8r-v; Titus Livius. Praefatio, a8v; Marcus Antonius Sabellicus. [Letter addressed to] Benedictus Cornarius, b1r; Marcus Antonius Sabellicus. Annotationes, b1r-b4v; Titus Livius. Historiae Romanae decades, edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus, c1r-ii7v; colophon, ii7v; printer's register, ii7v; publisher's device, ii7v.