tib01234000

Text-inc Id:

tib01234000

Bod-inc Id:

B-567

Headings:

Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. Dedicated to Julianus de Cesarinis, Cardinal deacon of S. Angelus. Zosimus, Historiae libri VI, ed. Johann Loewenklau (Geneva, 1605), 636-700. Bruni, Schriften, 147-9 (preface only). For an abridged translation of books 5-8 of Procopius' Bella, see Bruni, Schriften, 147 and 177.

Imprint:

Foligno: Johann Neumeister and Aemilianus de Orfinis, 1470. Folio and 4°. At least five variants of the colophon are known; see GW Anm. Sheets [a2.11] and [d1.10] are 4°.

Collation:

[a¹² b–f¹⁰ g¹²].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01234000 GW 5600; HC 1558; Goff B‑1234; BMC VI 599; Pr 5721; BSB‑Ink B‑937; CIBN B‑872; Oates 2234; Rhodes 449; Sheppard 4762. LCN: 13983234

Copies:

1. B-567(1) Copy The first variant of the colophon: see GW Anm. 1,1. Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [g12]; sheet [g6.7] is in duplicate. Binding: Eighteenth-century (Italian?) gold-tooled citron morocco; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 298 × 213 × 22 mm. Size of leaf: 287 × 201 mm. Early marginal notes in a humanist hand washed out. On front endleaf, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century note in Italian. On [a2r] an Italian half-border in the inner and lower margins: white vine-branches on a blue, red, and green ground incorporating a six-line epigraphic initial supplied in gold; in a wreath in the lower margin, a coat of arms (see below). Some principal initials are supplied in gold on a blue, red, and green ground with highlighting in white, on [c1v] and [f6r] with white vine-branch decoration and extensions into the margin. See Pächt and Alexander II, 106 no. pr. 13. Provenance: Unidentified Italian coat of arms: or, in the form of a ring an amphisbaena azure, the heads erect, gorged azure and vert. Purchased from Payne and Foss, A Catalogue of Books in Foreign Languages . . . (London, 1824), no. 2334 for £5. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1824), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.23.