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- Text-inc Id:
- tim00454000
- Bod-inc Id:
- M-180
- Headings:
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Mela, Pomponius
Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page.]
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a1v Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Praefatio' [addressed to] Alexander VI, Pont. Max. Hermolaus Barbarus, Castigationes Plinianae et in Pomponium Melam, 3 vols, ed. Giovanni Pozzi (Padua, 1973-9), III 1307.
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a2r Mela, Pomponius: Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. See M‑175.
- Imprint:
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[Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, c.1497/8]. 4°.
As assigned and dated by Sheppard, and assigned by Walsh, who dates [c.1498]; CIBN and IGI assign to the [`Printer of the ‘Nomen Jesu'], and date [c.1500].
- Collation:
- a–h4 i6. Type: 107 R. 38 leaves. 27 lines and headline (a3r). Type area: 143 (152) ×101 mm (a3r). Woodcut initials. Leaf a1r: ‘POMPONIVS MELA.' a1v: ‘Hermolai Barbari in Pomponiū Melam ad | Alexandrum Sextum pontificem maximum: Præfatio.'; a2r: ‘Pomponii Melæ Coſmographi de | ſitu orbis liber primus. | Proœmium.' i6r, colophon: ‘Pomponii melæ Coſmographi. | Libri Tertii & Vltimi. | FINIS.’
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: im00454000
Goff M‑454;
Pr 5411;
CIBN M‑285; IGI 6347; Sheppard 4491; Walsh 2535.
LCN: 14453931
- Copies:
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M-180(1)
Copy
Binding: Nineteenth-century half parchment with marbled pasteboards. ‘Mela 815' in manuscript on a rectangular label at tail of the spine.
Size: 220 × 158 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 215 × 152 mm.
Provenance: Purchased from Leo Samuel Olschki (1861-1940), Catalogue 20, no. 138, for 30 franchi [italiani, i.e. Lire]; see Library Bills, 1 Nov. 1889.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.35.
