tia00930000

Text-inc Id:

tia00930000

Bod-inc Id:

A-365

Headings:

Appianus Historia Romana [Pars I].

Analysis of content:

1. A1r P[etrus] Candidus [Decembrius: Preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[A]ppiani Alexandrini historiam seu ueterum incuria seu temporum iniquitate deperditam et ueluti longo postliminio ad nos redeuntem . . .’
2. A1v Appianus: Historia Romana. Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[R]omanorum historiam scribere adorsus necessarium in primis mihi existimaui terminos præponere quibus nationibus imperent Romani . . .’

Imprint:

Scandiano: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, 10 Jan. [1495]. Folio. The colophon reads ‘M.CCCCLCXV.IIII. Iduū Ianuarii'.

Collation:

A–M⁶ N⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00930000 GW 2292; HC (+ Addenda) 1310; Goff A‑930; BMC VII 1118; Pr 7325; BSB‑Ink A‑653; CIBN A‑484; Oates 2727; Rhodes 118; Sack, Freiburg, 252; Sheppard 6062. LCN: 14268986

Copies:

1. A-365(1) Copy Variants: D1r, headline: ‘LIBYCVS'; D6v headline: ‘LIEBR'; D3, printed with type 108 R; E1r, last marginal note: ‘Ingreditur | Scipio carta | ginem'. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter calf; gold-tooled spine. Size: 305 × 210 × 19 mm. Size of leaf: 301 × 202 mm. Erased note on N8v: ‘Liber est ad tempora(?) . . . pro[ ]rii'. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. Initials are supplied in red. Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate; sale, pt IV, lot 237. Date of acquisition unknown; most books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired during the 1840s. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 4.9.