Nicolai Perotti historiaru[m] Polybii liber primus incipit feliciter
Publisher: Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz
Published: 1472
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Ancient History; Punic Wars; History
Other titles: Historiarum Polybii liber primus incipit feliciter
Work titles: Historiae
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 1/4r).

Begins (leaf 1/2r): Nicolai Perotti in Polybii historiaru[m] libros prohemiu[m] incipit feliciter ad Nicolaum .V. pontificem maximu[m].

Translated by Niccolò Perotti.

Colophon (leaf 18/7r, in verse): ... Conradus suueynheym: Arnoldus pannartzq[ue] magistri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. / M.CCCC.LXXIII. die iouis ultima decembris.

The colophon date should be interpreted as 31 December 1472; cf. BM 15th cent., IV, p. ix, and C.F. Bühler, "False information in the colophons of incunabula," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 114 (1970), p. 398.

First edition.

Signatures: [1-3¹⁰ 4-11⁸ 12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18⁸]; 1/1, 18/8 blank.

Initial spaces.

Some copies have variant colophon readings: "Co[n]radus" and "pa[n]nartzq[ue]". Cf. BM 15th cent. and Hain.

Hain-Copinger, 13246*.

Proctor, 3336.

Goff, P-907.

BM 15th cent., IV, 16 (IB.17215).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ip00907000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1296.