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tis00504000
- Text-inc Id:
- tis00504000
- Bod-inc Id:
- S-198
- Headings:
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Silius Italicus
Punica (ed. Pomponius Laetus), et al.
- Analysis of content:
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[a1r] [Silius Italicus: Punica.] Edited by Pomponius Laetus; see explicit at the end of the Vita. Sil. On this edition and its textual source, see R[eeve], ‘Silius Italicus', in Texts and Transmission, 391; CTC III 351 and note; Punica, ed. Delz, p. xlviii. On the transmission generally see S‑197.
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[t8v] [Vita.] Incipit: ‘Syllius Italicus cuius Naiores(!) Italica Hispaniae urbe orti fuere . . . Opus iam neglectum Pomponius recognouit. Anno domini . . .’ On this Vita see CTC III 361-2.
- Imprint:
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[Rome: Printer of Silius Italicus, after 26 Apr. 1471]. 4°.
For the dating see C. Csapodi ‘Genauere Datierung von drei Inkunabeln ohne Jahr', Gb Jb (1965), 122-3.
- Collation:
- [a–g10 h8 i6 k–r10 s t8].
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: is00504000
HCR 14734;
Goff S‑504;
BMC IV 42;
Pr 3431;
CIBN S‑258; Sheppard 2748. Microfiche: Unit 10: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part IV, PI 21.
LCN: 14051290
- Copies:
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S-198(1)
Copy
Misbound in the following order: gatherings [a, p–r, m–o, b–l, s, t].
Binding: Late eighteenth-century red morocco; bound for the Bodleian Library by Heinrich Walther; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers; gilt-edged (formerly blue-edged) leaves; marbled pastedowns; pale green silk bookmark.
Size: 290 × 209 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 278 × 191 mm.
Sixteenth-century folio numbering. On [t8v] in a sixteenth-century Italian(?) hand the note ‘Hic liber amore dei traditus(?) est'. A bookseller's pencilled note ‘18907' on the verso of the front endleaf.
Provenance: Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792)(?); perhaps the (rebound) Crevenna copy (‘grand in 4 vél'); see sale (1789) III, lot 4009, marked down to Payne for Fl. 200 (= £17. 10. 0).
Purchased for £17. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 8.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 1.2.
