tip00730000

Text-inc Id:

tip00730000

Bod-inc Id:

P-330

Headings:

Pius II, Pont. Max. Historia rerum ubique gestarum.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Historia rerum ubique gestarum. ‘Historia . . . gestarum cum locorum descriptione non finita Asia Minor incipit'. Incipit: ‘[Q]aecunque mortales agunt siue priuatim . . .’ Explicit: Ptholomeus ultra Indiam collocauerit sinas; colophon: . . .gestarum prima pars finitur . . . This work, which should probably be called In Asiam, together with In Europam, were part of a project of the author to write a Cosmographia or Historia rerum ubique gestarum; see N. Casella, ‘Pio II tra geografia e storia: la “Cosmographia"', Archivio della Società romana di storia patria, 95 (1972), 35-112, at 108 no. 1. Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 281-386; see also VL VII 634-69, at 658-9.

Imprint:

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1477. Folio.

Collation:

a–f¹⁰ g h⁸ i–l¹⁰.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00730000 HC *257; Goff P‑730; BMC V 233; Pr 4322; CIBN P‑424; Hillard 1640; Oates 1723-4; Sack, Freiburg, 2894; Sheppard 3492. Microfiche: Unit 5: Chronicles and Historiography: Part II. LCN: 14015684

Copies:

1. P-330(1) Copy Bound with A‑371; see there for details of binding. Size of leaf: 278 × 189 mm. ‘Floruit anno domini 1434'. A few notes, mainly extraction of key words, in a humanist hand. Also marginal notes, summarizing key points, in the same sixteenth-century English hand that annotated item 1 and 4. Initials and capital strokes are supplied in red on the first and last leaves only. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.8(2).