Enee Siluii Piccolominei Senen[sis]. Cardinal[is] Sancte Sabine ad Alfonsum Aragonum Regem Clarissimum in Historiam Bohemicam prefatio incipit Lege foeliciter
Publisher: Johann Schurener and Johannes Nicolai Hanheymer, for Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus
Published: 1475
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: History; Kings and rulers
Work titles: Historia Bohemica
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 1/2r).

Colophon (leaf 8/7v): ... Impressorib[us] M[a]g[ist]ris Iohanne Nicolai Hanheymer de Oppenheym [et] Iohanne Schurener de Bopardia. Rome Anno Iubilei et a Natiuitate Ihesu Christi .M.CCCC.LXXV. Die .X. me[n]sis Ianuarii ... Fauente Impressioni huius operis domino Iohanne Aloisio Tuscano aduocato consistoriali ...

Signatures: [1-5¹⁰ 6-8⁸]; 1/1, 8/8 blank.

Small death's head woodcut on leaf 8/7v.

Initial spaces, a few with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "royal"-size paper.

Copies are known with variant colophons: some lack the name of the publisher, Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus; others lack the death's head ornament beneath the colophon. Cf. ISTC.

Hain-Copinger, 255*.

Proctor, 3485.

Goff, P-728.

BM 15th cent., IV, 56 (IB.17755).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ip00728000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1354.
Table of contents: title: Pius II, Pont. Max. Praefatio, [a2]r-[a3]v; Pius II, Pont. Max. Historia Bohemica, Books 1-5, [a3]v-[h7]v; colophon, [h7]v.