Diodori Siculi Historiarum priscarum
By: a Poggio in Latinum traducti liber primus incipit
Contributors: Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459, translator; Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455, dedicatee; Paltasichis, Andreas de, active 1476-1493, printer; Tacitus, Cornelius
Publisher: Andreas de Paltasichis
Published: 1477
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Ancient History; Germanic peoples; History
Other titles: Historiarum priscarum; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Bibliothecae historicae libri VI
Notes: Title from caption in capitals at beginning of the table of contents on leaf [pi1] verso.

Imprint derived from colophon (q8 recto): Diodori Siculi Bibliothece historiae libri: In quibus Prisce res: fabulae: & multa ac uaria de situ locoru[m] ac moribus gentium co[n]tinentur: Impressi Venetiis per Andrea[m] Iacobi Kathare[n]sem Andrea Vendramino Duce fortunatissimo .Mcccclxxvi. Pridie kal[endas]. febr[uarii].

Translated by Poggio Bracciolini.

Signatures: [pi]℗ø a℗£́ʻ b-ḱı ĺœ m-ńı óœ p-q́ı (a1=blank).

Chancery folio; 36 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 251

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D-211

Incunabula short title catalogue, id00211000

Cataloged 20170806 jmoschela

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century vellum. Maroon leather spine label stamped in gilt. Bookplate of the BPL Francis Skinner Fund, with two star-shaped ink stamps on front pastedown. Early/contemporary marginalia and rubrication heavily washed away and faded. Leaf dimensions: 293 x 204 mm. Purchased March 1936.
Table of contents: title: Table of contents, [pi1] verso-[pi2] verso; title: Poggius Florentinus. "Prohemium" [addressed to] Pope Nicolaus V, a2 recto-verso; title: Diodorus Siculus. Bibliothecae historicae, Books 1-6, translated by Poggius Florentinus, a2 verso-p8 recto, each book preceded by a table of contents; title: [Publius] Cornelius Tacitus. Germania, q1 recto-q8 recto; colophon, q8 recto.