Iesus Maria. Dictys Cretensis Historia belli Troiana et Dares Priscus De Eadem Troiana [De excidio Troiae historia]
Publisher: cum eximia diligentia impressa per Christoferum mandellum de pensis Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello
Published: 1499
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 230
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. ff. [74]. Signatures: a-h⁸ i¹⁰. Modern vellum. Extensively annotated in an early hand. Imprint derived from colophon, sig. i10r; additional colophon, sig. g8v, dated: kal. Februariis [1 Feb.] 1499. Ex libris of Kirby Flower-Smith. Inked drawing depicting “Anchiles Troianus” tipped in at end. </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Bound with L. Fenestella de Ro. Magistratibus, nitori tandem nativo restitutus, mille fluentibus ulceribus curatis, industria doctissimi Joannis Camertis. Theo. Professo. cumlocorum omnium ob commune opti. litterarum incrementum annotationibus.” </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Combined edition of two allegedly eyewitness accounts of the fall of Troy, Dictys Cretensis’s Historia belli Troiana and Dares Phrygius’s De excidio Troiae historia (see Bib# 4102592/Fr# 7 in this collection for the apparent first edition). These works are usually cited as a pair by later writers, e.g. Petrarch and Chaucer, and are demonstrably written no earlier than the fourth or fifth century AD. Both are edited by Faragonius.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Leipzig [etc.], 8328; F. R. Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census. Millwood (N.Y.), 1973, D-187; British Museum, Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum, vol. v, p. 472; L. Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum. Stuttgart, 1826, 6158.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991019468009707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>