Lucanus
Subtitle: cum duobus commentis
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 227, item 3
Publisher: Imp[re]ssu[m] p[er] Simone[m] Bevilaqua[m] papiense[m
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Pharsalus, Battle of, Farsala, Greece, 48 B.C.; Poetry; History
Work titles: Pharsalia
Notes: With the commentaries of Joannes Sulpitius and Ognibene Bonisoli, revised by Johannes Taberius.

Imprint from colophon (leaf D6r).

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ a-z⁸ A-C⁸ D⁶.

Text surrounded by 62 lines of commentary.

Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.

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

Includes dedicatory letters by Giovanni Britannico and Johannes Taberius, poems by Sulpitius and Christoforo Lanfranchini, and a brief life of Lucan by Pomponio Leto.

Hain-Copinger, 10242*.

Proctor, 5409.

Goff, L-307.

BM 15th cent., V, 523 (IB.23984).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), il00307000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2533-2534.

From the William Norton Bullard Collection.

Initials added in red and/or blue. 16th-century pigskin over wooden boards; pigskin thongs nailed to back cover; latches on front; brass clasps. Interlinear MS marginalia.