Petri Marsi interpraetatio in Syllium italicum ad Illu
Subtitle: principem Virginium Vrsinum
Publisher: Joannes Tacuinus, de Tridino
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Poetry; Punic War, 2nd, 218 B.C.-201 B.C.; Latin Epic poetry; Military History
Other titles: Syllius Italicus cum commentariis Petri Marsi; Syllivs Italicvs
Work titles: Punica
Notes: With the commentary of Pietro Marso.

Title from incipit to dedicatory letter (leaf a2r).

Place of publication and date from colophon; printer from ISTC.

Colophon (leaf [con]7v): Venetiis anno salutifere Incarnationis nonagesimo tertio supra millesimum ac quadrigentesimum duodecimo Kalendas octobres.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c-z⁶ &⁶ [con]⁸ (a1 and [con]⁸ blank).

The Houghton Library copy is imposed in folio format throughout. ISTC records the format as 4to.

Text surrounded by 62 lines of commentary.

Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "super-chancery"-size paper.

The Houghton Library copy conforms to the copy described in Oates. Another issue (?) is known with text beginning on leaf a3v instead of a4r, minor variants in the colophon, and title on a1r: Syllius Italicus cum commentariis Petri Marsi. Cf. Hain-Copinger-Reichling.

Hain-Copinger-Reichling, 14741.

Proctor, 5425.

Goff, S-509.

Oates, 2103.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), is00509000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2551.