Rvfvs Festvs Avienivs. vc. Flaviano myrmeico. vc. svo salvtem
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 13A, item 3
Publisher: Antonius de Strata, de Cremona
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 122
Work titles: Works
Notes: Editio princeps.

Signatures: a¹⁰, b-p⁸, (a1, g8, p7-8 blank).

Colophon: Hoc opus impressum Venetiis arte & ingenio Antonii de strata cremonensis. Anno salutis .M.cccclxxxviii. octauo calendas nouembres.

Leaves a2-3 contain the preface of the editor, headed: Victor pisanus magnifico ac singularis prudentiae uiro Paulo pisano senatori veneto. s.p.d.

Includes Avienus's expanded Latin verse translation of Aratus, his Latin version of Dionysius Periegetes, his Ora maritima, translations of Aratus by Germanicus & Cicero, & the Liber medicinalis of Serenus Sammonicus.

Some of the woodcuts (constellations, etc.), in part reversed copies of those in the 1485 Hyginus of Ratdolt, are from blocks used in the June 1488 ed. of Hyginus printed by T. Blavis.

Capital spaces, with guide-letters.

Hain-Copinger, 2224*.

Hain, 2223.

Proctor, 4593.

Goff, A-1432.

GW, 3131.

Sander, 718.

BM 15th cent., V, 294 (IA.21262).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ia01432000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1847-1849.

Inscription on blank a1r, "Est huius libelli possessor Ant Salomon" and "Joh[hann]es Posellus successit."

Manuscript note of William King Richardson, "Wheeler Smith sale."

Ownership note on a1r: "Docto[r]is Iheron[im]i Balbi"; from the William Norton Bullard Collection.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Without rubrication. In original wooden boards rebacked with pigskin.

Rebound in vellum, 16th or 17th century[?]; in a morocco solander case.