M. Annei Lucani Cordubensis Pharsalia
By: cum duplici explanatione, altera quide[m] arguta atq[ue] erudita, vtpote Ioannis Sulpitii Verulani viri facile doctissimi ; altera vero familiari admodum & dilucida ; quippe quæ ex Iodoci Badii Ascensii : ho[min]is pro Tyronum litterariorum eruditione vigilantissimi : grammatica est officina profecta /
Publisher: Exponitur venum in aedibus Ascensianis ex aduerso Collegii Italici et Ioannis Parui in via regia ad diuum Iacobum sub leone argenteo
Published: 1506
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat
Number of pages: 524
Subjects: History; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Pharsalia
Notes: Includes index.

Printer's device of Jean Petit on the title-page; t.p. printed in red and black.

Date from colophon.

Woodcut criblé initials.

Commentary of J. Badius Ascensius aimed at the classroom; the more scholarly commentary is by Giovanni Sulpizio.

Signatures: A⁶ a-z⁶ A-S⁶ T⁴ U⁶.

Renouard, P. Josse Badius Ascensius, v. 3, p. 23-24.

Bound in elaborate gilt and painted strapwork, interlace, and pointillé binding by the Cupid's bow binder for Louis de Sainte-Maure, with the owner's name in an oval lozenge on front and his motto ""In via virtuti nulla est via" on back cover; with painted and gilt gauffered edges; spine gilt with five raised bands; hinges cracked; in case. (See Nixon, Sixteenth-century gold-tooled bindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, pp. 130-132 and no. 38 and Bookbindings from the library of Jean Grolier (British Museum, 1965), p. 58 ff.)