Iohannis Simonetae In commentarios rerum gestarum Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensium ducis praefatio
Publisher: Antonius Zarotus
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Milan
Language: lat
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: History
Other titles: Iohannis Simonetae In commentarios rervm gestarvm Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensivm dvcis praefatio; In commentarios rerum gestarum Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensium ducis praefatio
Work titles: Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae
Notes: Title from caption, leaf [2] verso.

Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus.

Place of publication and printer from colophon; date of printing from Incunabula short title catalogue.

Explicit and colophon, leaf [290] recto: Finis iis Comentariis ab primo Alphonsi in Italiam ad Venetu et ab quarto et vicesimo supra quadringentesimum et milesimum anno a natali Christiano ad sextum et sexagesimum vsque annum non diui Francisci Sphoritae solum sed omnium Italicorum populorum regum et rerum publicarum facta domi forisque continentur: tanta fide et religione litteris prodita vt nihil gratiae atque adulationidatum esse constet quae eo certiora habenda sunt: quod qui scripsit rebus fere omnibus interfuit, ea nunc regnante Iohanne Galeacio. VI. Mediolani duce auspiciis et iussu illustrissimi Lodouici Sphortiae, Antonius Zarotus impressit Mediolani decimo Kalendas Februarias.

"A six year privilege for this book was granted by the Duke of Milan to the printers on 6 July 1481. For date of printing see BMC and CIBN: one of the Paris BN copies has a printed letter of dedication to Louis XI dated 3 Feb. 1482. G. Ianziti, Humanistic Historiography under the Sforzas (Oxford 1988) pp. 211-19, argues that printing finished in 1483"--Incunabula short title catalogue.

42 lines; capital spaces.

Last 2 leaves blank.

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry is00532000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M42283

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry S-532

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 14753

Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 14754

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 5804

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, 718 (IB. 25995)

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), S-278

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 3063

Lacking 2 blank leaves at end.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in half 19th-century calf and marbled boards (rehinged); edges stained blue.