Phalaridos Epistolai tyrannou Akragantinōn
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 300, item 2
Publisher: Ex aedibus Bartholomaei Iustinopolitani, Gabrielis Brasichellensis, Ioannis Bissoli, et Benedicti Mangii carpensium
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Venice
Language: grc; lat
Number of pages: 58
Work titles: Epistles of Phalaris
Notes: The letters are spurious.

Edited by Bartholomaeus Pelusius.

Title from text incipit (leaf 2[alpha]2r).

Begins (leaf 2[alpha]1r, editor's preface): Bartholomaeus Iustinopolitanus Petro Contareno patritio ueneto. S.

Printer statement and date from colophon; place of publication from BM 15th cent.

Signatures: 2[alpha]-2[delta]⁸ 2[epsilon]⁴ 2[zeta]⁸ 2[eta]⁴ 2[theta]¹⁰.

Woodcut pine cone device (Husung 122) of the printers on leaf 2[theta]10v. In some copies, the device is printed stalk upwards.

"Epistolai appollōniou philosophou pythagorikou": leaves 2[zeta]1r-2[eta]4v.

Includes the letters of Pseudo-Brutus with preface by Mithridates (leaves 2[theta]1r-10v).

Hain-Copinger, 12871*

Proctor, 5638

Goff, P-545

BM 15th cent., V, 578 (IA.24703)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ip00545000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2737.

Text in Greek, with editor's letter in Latin.

From the library of Viscount Carlo Caburri, with his bookplate.

In this copy the pine cone device is printed stalk upwards.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound with: Aesop, Vita et Fabulae (Venice: Pelusius, Braccius, Bissolus, Mangius, 1498?).

Bound in 19th-century black morocco by Bauzonnet-Trautz, with a crowned monogram "W" (?) stamped in gilt at the four corners of the covers; edges gilt.