Enee Siluii Senensis poete laureati imperialisque secretaaii [sic] uiri omnium facile prestantissimi rerum familiarium incipiunt epistole peramene
Series: Books printed in the Low Countries before 1601 -- roll 66, item 1
Publisher: Johannes de Westfalia
Published: 1483
Place of publication: Louvain
Language: lat
Number of pages: 608
Subjects: Correspondence; Popes; Humanists
Work titles: Epistolae familiares
Notes: Title from text incipit on leaf a2r.

Imprint derived from colophon (leaf qq8r): Pii Secundi pontificis maximi ... dei[n]de etia[m] Cardinali Sene[n]si. Enee Siluio nome[n] erat. Familiares epistole date ad amicos i[n] quadruplici uite eius statu finiunt per me Ioa[n]ne[m] de UUestfalia in alma uniuersitate Louanie[n]si co[m]mora[n]te[m]. Anno incarnatio[n]is dominice M.CCCC.LXXXIII.

Signatures: a-y⁹ aa-qq⁸ (a1 blank).

Signatures are printed vertically in the lower right corner of the right-hand margin, except for gatherings b and c, where they are in the normal position. The types are frequently oriented in the wrong direction, or are upside-down.

Initial spaces.

Includes various tracts and bulls of Pius II, and the Epistola de balneis of Poggio Bracciolini.

Hain-Copinger, 152

Proctor, 9233

Goff, P-718

BM 15th cent., IX, 141 (IB.49167)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ip00718000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3922.

Purchase; 31 May 1913; C.E. Norton fd.

Ms. ownership notation in lower margin of leaf a2r, "Sum Erasmi Lamprecht Iudicij Ciuici Herbipolensis Assessoris"; smudged and illegible circular black ownership stamp on front flyleaf.

Initials added in brown as far as leaf s4; spaces thereafter not filled in.

Bound in 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin over reverse-bevelled wooden boards; a portion of the pigskin on the rear board has been replaced with vellum; endleaves replaced.