Suetonius
Subtitle: cum commentario Philippi Beroaldi
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 416, item 1; Italian books before 1601 -- roll 355, item 2
Publisher: Benedictus Hectoris Bononiensis
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Impressum Bononiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: History; Emperors; Biography
Other titles: Svetoni; Commentationes conditae a Philippo Beroaldo in Suetonium Tranquillum. Dicatae inclyto Annibali Bentivolo; Svetonivs
Work titles: De vita Caesarum
Notes: Title appears on leaf a1r (leaf [1] (2nd count)).

Imprint derived from colophon (leaf 326v).

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ a-l⁸m⁴ n-o⁸ p⁶ q-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A-G⁸ H-T⁶ V⁴ (V4 blank).

Errors in foliation: 149, 187-188, and 310 misnumbered 159, 186-187, and 301 respectively.

Test surrounded by 56 lines of commentary.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Woodcut printer's device on leaf 326v.

With a Latin poem by Giovanni Battista Pio on leaf 326v.

Includes register on leaf V3r.

Hain-Copinger, 15126*

Proctor, 6623

Goff, S-825

BM 15th cent., VI, 840 (IB.29045)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), is00825000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3226-3227.

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 15126

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 6623

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-825

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI:840 (IB. 29045)

Incunabula short title catalogue, is00825000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3226-3227

National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, 575:576

Gift; Herbert Weir Smyth; 1937; Smyth 2812.

Gift; Mrs. E.D. Brandegee; 9 November 1908; Inc 6623.

Autographs (16th-17th centuries?) of Henry, John, and Josias White and of William Poulton on leaf V2v; autograph of Herbert Weir Smyth on front flyleaf.

From the library of Richard Ashhurst Bowie.

Imperfect: preliminary quire A⁶ and leaf V3 wanting; blank leaf not present.

12 initials illuminated in gold and colors; other initials added in red or blue.

Bound in 17th-century brown calf (rebacked).

Imperfect: preliminary quire A⁶ wanting; blank leaf not present.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in recent half brown morocco and green cloth.