Nam Valerium Asiaticu[m] bis consulem : fuisse quonda[m] adulteru[m] eius credidit
Subtitle: pariterq[ue] [h]ortis inhians quos ille a lucullo captos insigni magnifice[n]tia extollebat
Publisher: Vindelinus de Spira
Published: 1473
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Germanic peoples; Ancient Rhetoric; Oratory; Early works to 1800; History
Other titles: Nam Valerium Asiaticum bis consulem, fuisse quondam adulterum eius credidit, pariterque hortis inhians quos ille a lucullo captos insigni magnificentia extollebat
Work titles: Works
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 1/2r).

Printer from colophon; place of publication and date from Goff. CIBN dates to ca. 1471-1472.

Verse colophon (leaf 19/7r): C[a]esareos mores scribit Cornelius. esto / Iste tibi codex: histori[a]e pater est. / Insigni quem laude feret gens postera: pressit / Spira premens: artis gloria su[a]e.

First edition of these texts.

One of the earliest examples of a book with catchwords, which appear on the verso of each leaf. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Signatures: [1-9¹⁰ 10-11⁸ 12-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18-19⁸]; 1/1, 17/10, 19/8 blank.

Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

Hain-Copinger, 15218*

Proctor, 4061.

Goff, T-6.

CIBN T-4.

BM 15th cent., V, 165 (IB.19593).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), it00006000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1547.
Table of contents: title: Annales. Books 11-16; title: Historiae. Books 1-5; title: Germania; title: Dialogus de oratoribus.