[Commentarii]
Contributors: Oppius, C., active 1st century B.C.; Philelphus, Petrus Justinus, active 15th century; Zarotto, Antonio, printer; Hirtius, Aulus; Marlianus, Raimundus, approximately 1420-1475
Publisher: Antonius Zarotus
Published: 1477
Place of publication: Milan
Language: lat
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Military History; Indexes; History
Other titles: Bellum Africum.; Bellum Hispaniense.; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Works
Notes: Title from ISTC.

Imprint from ISTC, derived from colophon (s7 recto):  Anno Christi M. CCCClxxvii die uero x mensis Februarii. Hoc opus diligenter emendatum Antonius Zarothus Parmensis huius preclare artis magister politissimus quam maxima potuit diligentia impressit.

Edited by Petrus Justinus Philelphus.

Includes the De bello Gallico liber primus-septimus, the eighth book of the De bello Gallico attributed to Aulus Hirtius, the De bello civili liber primus-tertius, and the Bellum Alexandrinum (De bello civili liber quartus), Bellum Africum (De bello civili liber quintus, and Bellum Hispaniense (De bello civili liber sextus) attributed to either Aulus Hirtius or C. Oppius.

Signatures: a-ǵı h℗£́ʻ i-śı A-B́ı Ćœ (s8 blank).

Median folio; 41 lines per page; capital spaces, most with guide letters.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-19

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, p. 714 (IB. 25973)

Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00019000

Cataloged 20170131 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in ca. 18th-century blue paper over vellum. The spine is labelled in early manuscript.  Leaf dimensions: 32 x 21 cm. The bookplate of the BPL Charlotte Harris Fund is present on the front pastedown. Also present on the front pastedown is an early inscription that reads, "Ad uso del P. Gabriele dal Sasso [illegible]." Present on a1 recto is an early ownership inscription, struck out, along with the autograph of Bartolomeo Cerri. The same autograph is present, but struck out, on a1 verso and A1 recto. Leaf a2 recto is illuminated, with a three-quarter border of white vines over a background of blue, green, and red. Present in the lower border is an unidentified coat of arms, per fess sable, a lion issuant holding a branch, gules (above) and vert (below).