Silii Italici Punicorum Liber primus Incipit
Publisher: Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz
Published: 1471
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Poetry; Punic War, 2nd, 218 B.C.-201 B.C.; Latin Epic poetry; Latin Pastoral poetry; Greek Didactic poetry; Translations into Latin; Agriculture
Work titles: Punica
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 1/2r).

Edited by Joannes Andreae, bishop of Aleria.

First edition.

Colophon (leaf 17/4v, partly in verse): Anno d[omi]nici Natalis .M.CCCCLXXI. die .v. mensis Aprilis ... Io. An. Ep[iscop]us Alerien[sis] In Insula Cyrno. recognitione[m] absoluit diebus circiter .xv. ... Co[n]radus suueynheym: Arnoldus pa[n]nartzq[ue] magistri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. / Petrus cum fratre Francisco Maximus ambo / Huic operi aptatam contribuere domum.

Signatures: [1-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17⁶, 18-19⁸, 20⁸ 21⁶], 1/1, 17/5, 17/6, 18/1, 21/6 blank.

Initial spaces.

Printed on sheets of "median"-size paper.

In the Houghton Library copy, blind impressions of thin rules are visible at left and right edges, and sometimes at top and bottom edges, of the type-page, presumably impressions made by the chase.

Hain-Copinger, 14733*.

Hain, 4269a.

Proctor, 3317.

Goff, S-503.

BM 15th cent., IV, 13 (IB.17169-17170).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), is00503000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1293.
Table of contents: title: Punica (1/2r-17/4v); title: Bucolica / Titus Calpurnius Siculus and Marcus Aurelius Nemesianus (18/2r-19/8v); title: Opera et dies / Hesiod ; tr. Nicolaus de Valle (20/1v-21/5v).