Epistole et varij tractatus Pii Secundi Pontificis Maximi
Subtitle: ad diuersos in quadruplici vite eius statu transmisse
Publisher: Per Johannem de Uingle
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Impresse Lugduni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Correspondence; Popes; Humanists
Other titles: Epistolae et varii tractatus Pii Secundi Pontificis Maximi
Work titles: Epistolae familiares
Notes: Imprint from colophon (leaf [con]5r).

Edited by Ambrosius Archintus and Joannes Vinzalius.

Signatures: A⁸ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁶ (A8, [con]6 blank).

Title printed in red.

White-on-black woodcut initials.

Includes De duobus amantibus and other works of Pius II; the Epistola de balneis of Poggio Bracciolini; and Boccaccio's Guiscardo e Ghismunda in the Latin version of Leonardo Bruni. ISTC mentions a preface by Niklas von Wyle which is not, in fact, present in this edition.

Hain-Copinger, 158*

Copinger, 37

Proctor, 8646

Goff, P-722

BM 15th cent., VIII, 312 (IB.42060)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ip00722000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3815.

Purchase; Quaritch; April 1988; 87-1151; H.D. Smith fd.

Early MS signature beneath colophon: G. Gaguandi (?).  From the library of Earl Spencer, with his arms stamped in gilt on the covers, and leather booklabel "E Bibliotheca Spenceriana" inside front cover.  Label inside back cover reads "John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Withdrawn from stock April 1988."

A copy of this book was listed in Harvard's library catalogue of 1723, and lost in the fire of 1764.

Without rubrication.

Bound in 19th-century brown calf (rehinged) edges gilt; blank leaves not present; sheets v2-3 reversed in binding.