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tid00213000

Text-inc Id:
tid00213000
Bod-inc Id:
D-072
Headings:
Diodorus Siculus Bibliothecae historicae libri VI (ed. Bartholomaeus Merula).
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page.]
  2. a2r Poggius Florentinus: [Introductory letter, addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[N]ullus antea quantum vis praeclarus rerum scriptor . . .’
  3. a2v ‘Tituli primi libri'.
  4. a2v Diodorus Siculus: Bibliothecae historicae libri VI. Translated by Poggius Florentinus. Edited by Bartholomaeus Merula, as stated in the colophon. Incipit: ‘[M]agnas merito gratias rerum scriptoribus homines debet . . .’
  5. n5v [Colophon.]
Imprint:
Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 20 Sept. 1496. Folio.
Collation:
a–n6. Leaf a2 signed a, etc.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: id00213000 GW 8377; H *6191; Goff D‑213; BMC V 530; Pr 5441; BSB‑Ink D‑151; Rhodes 682; Sheppard 4532. LCN: 14815904
Copies:
  1. D-072(1) Copy Wanting a1, and n6. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf. Size: 319 × 214 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 310 × 200 mm. Provenance: J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1835; signature dated 1835 on the recto of the front endleaf; purchased at his sale (1837), lot 189, for £0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 11. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.17.