T. Liuii Patauini Historici ab vrbe co[n]dita
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 290, item 2
Publisher: Wendelin of Speier
Published: 1470
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: History
Other titles: T. Livii Patavini Historici ab urbe condita; Fausto ac felici solo tuam Vrbem Pater Beatissime Paule .II. Venete Pont. Maxime; Titi Livi periochae. 1470.
Work titles: Ab urbe condita
Notes: Edited by Joannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.

Title from table of contents (leaf 2/12v).

Begins (editor's prefatory letter, leaf 1/2r): [F]austo ac felici solo tuam Vrbem Pater Beatissime Paule .II. Venete Pont. Maxi[m]e: ...

Printer named in 46-line verse colophon (leaves ss12v-13r); place of publication from Goff.

Dated at end (leaf 42/12v): .M.CCCC.LXX.

Signatures: [1-2¹² 3-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(9+1) 13-15¹⁰ 16-17⁸ 18-34¹⁰ 35-36⁸ 37-41¹⁰ 42¹⁴]; 1/1, 17/8, 42/14 blank.

Initial spaces.

Printed on sheets of "royal"-size paper.

Sheet 3/1.10 exists in two settings. In the first setting, line 2 on leaf 3/1r reads: si a primordio urbis res populi romani perscripserim:; in the second setting, line 2 reads: ... pscripserī:. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Some copies have hand-stamped woodcut borders and initials, supplied for the guidance of illuminators. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Includes the Periochae (leaves 1/4r-2/12v).

Hain-Copinger, 10130.

Proctor, 4023.

Goff, L-238.

BM 15th cent., V, 154 (IC.19517).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), il00238000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1513-1514.

Bequest; William King Richardson; 1951; 50R-40.

From the library of William Horatio Crawford, with his bookplate and his ms. note, "I fancy that this is the Pinelli copy."

In this copy, leaf 3/1r has the reading: pscripserī; there are no hand-stamped borders or initials. Blank leaves 1/1 and 42/14 wanting.

Initials at the beginning of books illuminated in colors, those in the table added in red or blue (the blue mostly washed away).

Bound in 3 volumes, divided after each decade, in 19th-century brown calf, stamped in gilt and blind, edges gilt (rebacked);