Dictys Cretensis de historia belli Troiani et Darses Priscus de eadem Troiana
Contributors: Dares, Phrygius; Faraone, Francesco, approximately 1460-approximately 1525, editor; Riccius, Bernardus, of Messina, active 1526, dedicatee; Septimius, Lucius; Quintus Aradius, active 4th century, dedicatee; Nepos, Cornelius; Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C., dedicatee; Pensis, Christophorus de, active 1487-1503, printer; Austria. Bundesdenkmalamt
Publisher: [Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello]
Published: 1499
Place of publication: Venice]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Trojan War; Early works to 1800; Legends
Other titles: De historia belli Troiani; Historia Troiana; Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia.; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: De bello Troiano
Notes: 2 parts, dated: I) Anno .M.cccc.xcix. kal[endis] Februariis, i.e. 1 February 1499, on leaf g8 verso, and II) kalendis Martii .M. CCCC. LXXXXIX, i.e. 1 March 1499, on leaf i10 recto.

Title from title page on leaf a1 recto, preceded by: Iesus Maria.

Imprint from colophon (i10 recto): Finit historia antiquissima Dictys Cretensis atq[ue] Daretis Phrygii de bello Troianorum ac Gr©Œcorum in inclyta urbe Venetiarum cum eximia diligentia impressa per Cristoferum Mandellum de Pensis kalendis Martii .M. CCCC. LXXXXIX. Laus deo & beate uirgini.

Translated from Greek into Latin by Lucius Septimius.

Edited by Franciscus Faragonius.

Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.

Signatures: a-h́ı i℗£́ʻ.

Chancery quarto; a6 recto: 30 lines, 159 x 105 mm; type: 109 (107)R; woodcut inital on fol. h1 recto, otherwise initial spaces with guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 472

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D187

Incunabula short title catalogue, id00187000

cataloged 20191023 jm

condition reviewed 20200203 cl
Table of contents: title: Title page, a1 recto; Franciscus Faragonius. [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Riccius Messanensis, a2 recto-a3 recto; Franciscus Faragonius. [Verses], a3 recto-verso; Franciscus Faragonius. "Appendiculae ad libri interpretationem", a3 verso-a4 verso; Franciscus Faragonius. Epigramma [dedicated to] Bernardus Riccius Messanensis, a4 verso-a5 recto; [Lucius] Septimius. "Prologus", i.e. letter addressed to Quintus Aradius, a5 recto-verso; [Pseudo-]Dictys Cretensis. Historia Troiana, Books 1-6, in Latin translation by Lucius Septimius, a5 verso-g8 verso; colophon dated 1 February 1499, g8 verso; "Historia de origine troianorum", genealogical note, h1 recto; [Pseudo-]Cornelius Nepos. [Letter addressed to] Sallustius Crispus, h1 recto-verso; [Pseudo-]Dares Phrygius. De excidio Troiae historia, h1 verso-i9 verso; Franciscus Faragonius. "Ad lectorem", 5 elegiac distichs, i10 recto; colophon dated 1 March 1499, i10 recto; printer's register, i10 recto.