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- Text-inc Id:
- tid00212000
- Bod-inc Id:
- D-071
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Diodorus Siculus
Bibliothecae historicae libri VI.
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[*1v] [Table of contents.]
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a1r Poggius Florentinus: [Introductory letter.] ‘Prohemium' [addressed to Nicolaus V, Pont. Max.] Incipit: ‘[N]ullus antea quantum vis praeclarus rerum scriptor . . .’
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a1v ‘Capitula libri primi'.
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a1v Diodorus Siculus: Bibliothecae historicae libri VI. Translated by Poggius Florentinus. Incipit: ‘[M]agnas merito gratias rerum scriptoribus homines debet . . .’ What is entitled chapter 1 in other editions is here called ‘Prohemium totius operis'.
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s6r Tacitus, [Publius] Cornelius: Germania. Tac. Ger.
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t7r Squarzaficus, Hieronymus: [Valediction, addressed to] Franciscus Leonus. Allenspach–Frasso 281-3, and on this edition see 254.
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Venice: Thomas de Blavis de Alexandria, 25 Nov. 1481. Folio.
- Collation:
- [*2] a b8 c–s6 t8.
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: id00212000
GW 8376;
HCR 6190;
Goff D‑212;
BMC V 316;
Pr 4754;
BSB‑Ink D‑150; Sheppard 3812.
LCN: 14815931
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D-071(1)
Copy
Binding: Diced russia; gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 307 × 215 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 299 × 200 mm.
Marginal notes in red ink in one fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Book numbers supplied in faded black ink in the upper right-hand corner of each page.
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1828), 10, where the date is given as 1491.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 4.26.
