TEXT-inc
tib00700000
- Text-inc Id:
- tib00700000
- Bod-inc Id:
- B-356
- Headings:
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Blondus, Flavius
Italia illustrata (ed. Gaspar Blondus).
- Analysis of content:
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[a2r] [Table of contents.] Incipit: ‘`De Italie nomine, dimensione ac forma . . .’
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[c1r] Blondus, Gaspar: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Zane, Bishop of Brescia. Incipit: ‘Coegerunt me tandem assidue tue uoces, prestantissime pater . . .’
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[c2r] Blondus, Flavius: ‘In Italiam illustratam prefatio'. Edited by Gaspar Blondus. Incipit: ‘`[C]um multi hystoriam uariis celebrent extollantque sententiis tum maxime Alexander Antoninus . . .’
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[c2v] Blondus, Flavius: Italia illustrata. Incipit: ‘`[I]taliam describere exorsi prouinciarum orbis primariam a laudibus eius incipere debuimus . . .’
- Imprint:
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Rome: Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, [not before 10] Dec. 1474. Folio.
Although the colophon is dated 5 Dec., the prefatory letter is dated 10 Dec.; BMC presumes that the book was not complete before 10 Dec.
- Collation:
- [a10 b8 c–g10 h8 i10 k8 l–s10].
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib00700000
HC 3246;
Goff B‑700;
BMC IV 33;
GW 4421;
Pr 3397;
Sheppard 2717.
LCN: 13962327
- Copies:
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B-356(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf [a1]; gatherings [m] and [p] are misbound between [e10] and [f1]; the last leaf is backed.
Binding: English eighteenth-century gold-tooled, crushed red morocco, stamped with the arms of the Duke of Roxburghe; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves; endpapers watermarked ‘Budgen 1795', countermark a fleur-de-lis also dated 1795.
Size: 333 × 240 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 322 × 210 mm.
A few early but washed notes still visible.
Provenance: John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804); sale (18 May 1812), lot 8187, possibly for £8. 8. 0.
Purchased for £3. 16. 6; see Books Purchased (1822), 2.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.21
