tib01235000

Text-inc Id:

tib01235000

Bod-inc Id:

B-568

Headings:

Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. Dedicated to Julianus de Cesarinis, Cardinal deacon of S. Angelus. See B‑567.

Imprint:

[Venice]: Nicolaus Jenson, before July 1471. 4°. The format is described as folio in GW, but Paul Needham, Schøyen Sale Catalogue (New York: Sotheby, 12 Dec. 1991), lot no. 16 records it as a large quarto in half-sheets. The book was for sale in Germany by 6 July 1471; see Mariarosa Cortesi, ‘Incunaboli veneziani in Germania nel 1471', in Vestigia. Studi in onore di Giuseppe Billanovich, ed. R. Avesani and others, 2 vols, Storia e Letteratura, 162-3 (Rome, 1984), I 197-219.

Collation:

[a¹² b–e¹⁰ f¹²].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01235000 GW 5601; H *1559; Goff B‑1235; BMC V 170; Pr 4080; BSB‑Ink B‑938; CIBN B‑873; Hillard 508; Rhodes 450; Sheppard 3248. LCN: 13983317

Copies:

1. B-568(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt fillets on spine; marbled pastedowns. Size: 283 × 210 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 279 × 196 mm. Early marginal notes in a humanist hand washed out. On [a1r] contemporary Venetian quarter border in the inner margin: white vine-stems on a blue, red, and green ground with dotting in white, incorporating a six-line epigraphical initial supplied in gold. Principal initials are supplied in gold on a blue, red, and green ground with dotting in white and white vine-branch decoration; lower margin, presumably formerly with a coat of arms, cut off and replaced with later paper. See Pächt and Alexander II, 110 no. pr. 62. Provenance: On front endleaf inscription: ‘This copy sold at a sale for 3.7.-'. Probably acquired after 1738: not in Fysher, Catalogus. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.14. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.26.