Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii liber primus
Contributors: Paltasichis, Andreas de, active 1476-1493, printer; Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475, commentator for written text; Brienne, Henri-Auguste de Lomenie, comte de, 1594-1666, former owner; Morin, Victor, 1865-1960, former owner; Spiegelberg, Frederick, 1863-1937, former owner; Toussaint (Abbey : Angers, France)
Publisher: Andreas Paltasichis
Published: 1477
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Classical literature; Early works to 1800; History and criticism; Classical philology; Ancient Philosophy
Other titles: Avli Gelii Noctivm Atticarvm commentarii liber primvs; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Noctes Atticae
Notes: Signatures: a℗£℗ʻ b-x́ı y-źœ A-B́ı (a1=blank).

Chancery folio; 36 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters.

Title from incipit at head of a2 recto.

Date and imprint from colophon (z6 recto): Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii finis. Impressi Venetiis per Andream Iacobi Catharensem. M.CCC.LXXVII. Andrea Vendrameno duce Venetiarum inclyto.

Preceding the colophon is a printed note by Johannes Andrea de Bussis on the missing book 8, beginning "Volumina co[m]me[n]tarior[um] ad hu[n]c diem uiginti ia[m] facta su[n]t ..."

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ig00121000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry G121

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, vol. V, page 251

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 10596

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 17th-/18th-century red goatskin paneled in triple-ruled gilt. Armorial super-ex-libris of Henri-Auguste de Lomenie, comte de Brienne, on both covers. Spine paneled and tooled in gilt with black leather label. All text block edges marbled and gilt. Armorial bookplate of Victor Morin on recto of front free endpaper. Bookplate of the BPL Benton Fund, bookplate of Frederick Spiegelberg, auctioneer's description, and unidentified, effaced armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Leaf a1 (blank) wanting. Two early ownership inscriptions of the Augustinians at Angers (France) on a2 recto: Pro co[n]uentu andegaue[n]si ordinis fr[atru]m [...]" and "Fratribus Augustinianis Andegauensibus," with stenciled shelf mark ("M 20"). Two-line initials rubricated in alternating red and blue. Larger initials in interlocking red and blue. Manuscript guide letters. Capital strokes in yellow. Large initial on a2 recto illuminated. Early/contemporary marginalia, in various hands, throughout. Leaf dimensions: 295 x 197 mm. Purchased Nov. 1937.