Vita Oppiani Laurentii Lippii Colle[n]sis ad magnificu[m] Virum Laurentium Medicem
Publisher: Bonus Gallus
Published: 1478
Place of publication: Colle di Val d'Elsa
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Fishes; Poetry; Fishing; Early works to 1800; Cooking (Fish); Zoology; Pre-Linnean works; Greek Didactic poetry; Translations into Latin
Work titles: Halieutica
Notes: In verse.

Title from incipit on leaf a1r.

Colophon (leaf h8r): Philippus poscus ad lectorem. Laurentius Lippius Collensis Vir utraque lingua apprime eruditus hoc diuinu[m] Oppiani opus traduxit Gallus cognomine Bonus impressit: ut esset studiosis litterarum utriusque industria quantulacunque accessio: Quapropter quod Oppianum o lector latinum legis utrisque gratias agas Impressum in Colle Oppido Municipio Flore[n]tino anno ab hu[m]aitate [sic] Christi .Mcccclxxviii. die .xii. Septembris.

Translated from the Greek by Lorenzo Lippi of Colle, with his Disticha at end.

First edition; considered the first printed book on fishing.

Signatures: a-h⁸ [$3 signed; b2, b4 signed 'b3', 'biii' respectively; a2, d1 unsigned]. The two British Library copies display other signing variants.

In the Houghton Library copy, quire h shows evidence of resetting: the catchwords given in the register for sheets h3.6 and h4.5 refer, not to the first lines on h3r and h4r, but to the last lines on h2v and h3v.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

Commendatory Latin poem by Philippus Poscus on leaves h7v-h8r.

Register: leaf h8r.

Hain-Copinger, 12015*

Proctor, 7242

Goff, O-65

BM 15th cent., VII, 1079 (IA.33513-14)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), io00065000