Castigationes Plinii
By: Hermolai Barbari
Contributors: Barbaro, Daniel, 1514-1570, publisher; Printer of Barbarus, printer
Publisher: Printer of Barbarus
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Natural history; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Castigationes Plinianae et Pomponii Melae
Notes: Half title.

Signatures: a-k⁸ l-r⁶ s⁴ aa-cc⁸ dd⁶ ee⁴ (g3 numbered g, s4 blank).

Printed in a single column, 60 lines and head line per page.

Register after colophon on leaf [125] recto.

Author claims to have corrected 5,000 errors in the text of Pliny's Natural history and the re-establishment of 300 passages in Pomponius Mela.

"Reprinted from the 1492/3 Roman edition of Silber with the errata corrected. Daniel Barbarus, brother of Hermolaus, who died on 2 May 1493, took out a privilege for this work on 11 December, 1493"; cf. BMC (XV cent.) X, p.587.

Dedicatory epistles, sig. a2r, dated "octavo Kalendas Sempembris [sic] MCCCCXCII" [25 Aug. 1492] and sig. 2a1r, "idibus ianuariis Mcccc.xciii" [13 Jan. 1494].

Hain, 2420

BMC, V, p. 587

GW, 3341

Goff, B-101

Proctor, 7422

Walsh, J. E. 15th cent. printed books, 2604A-B