T. Liuii Patauini historici ab urbe co[n]dita decadis prim[a]e ...
Publisher: Ulrich Han
Published: 1470
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: History
Other titles: T. Livii Patavini historici Ab urbe condita decadis primae ...
Work titles: Ab urbe condita
Notes: Title from table of rubrics (leaf 2/13v).

Begins (leaf 1/1r): [C]ampanvs Cardinali Papiensi meo salutem. Tres T. Liuii decades ...

Place of publication and date from BM 15th cent.; printer from colophon.

Edited by Johannes Antonius Campanus.

Verse colophon (leaf 2/13v; repeated on 19/6v, 46/8v): Anser Tarpeii custos Iouis: unde: q[ui] alis / Constreperes: Gallus decidit: ultor adest. / Vdalricus Gallus: ne quem poscantur in usum / Edocuit pennis nil opus esse tuis. / Imprimit ille die. quantum non scribitur anno. / Ingenio: haud noceas: omnia uincit homo. / Campanvs.

Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2¹⁴, 3-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7⁶ 8-14¹⁰ 15⁸ 16-17¹⁰ 18-19⁸, 20-34¹⁰, 35-46¹⁰], 2/14, 11/8, 19/7, 19/8, 46/9, 46/10 blank.

Spaces for initials and headings.

Printed on sheets of "royal"-size paper.

Leaves [24], [106], [181], [182], [451], [452] blank.

"Epitoma decadum quatuordecim. T. Liuii Patauini Historici in Centu[m] & quadraginta libros distinctum": leaves 1/1v-2/13v. The text differs from the Epitomae of Lucius Annaeus Florus.

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 10129

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 3345

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry L-237

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IV, 20 (IC.17254)

ISTC, entry il00237000

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 1300-1302

Pencilled note on front flyleaf: Bound while in possession of Rev. F.W.P. Greenwood.

Imperfect: quires 35-46 only (leaves 333-450, constituting Decade IV).

Leaf 35/1 has been trimmed to the edge of the text and inset into a blank leaf onto which has been painted in gold and colors a 3-sided white vine stem and floral bud border, with a coat of arms in the lower panel; without other rubrication.

Imperfect: leaves 13/1, 13/10, 36/1-10, 41/5-6, 45/5-6, and blank 46/10 wanting.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in 18th-century blind-stamped brown leather, pastepaper pastedowns, edges sprinkled red and blue; leaf 35/2 misbound after 46/6; quire 41 misbound in order: 1-3, 7, 6, 5, 4, 8-10; blank leaves 46/9-10 wanting.

Bound in 19th-century brown diced calf, stamped in gilt and blind, edges sprinkled blue (rebacked); leaves 45/1-4, 7-10 misbound after quire 35; scattered foxing and stains.