tia00931000

Text-inc Id:

tia00931000

Bod-inc Id:

A-366

Headings:

Appianus Historia Romana [Pars II].

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Table of contents.
2. [a2v] P[etrus] Candidus [Decembrius: Preface addressed to] to Alphonsus II of Aragon, King of Naples. Incipit: ‘[P]arthorum regem, ut ab Anneo accepimus, sine munere salutare nemo potest . . .’
3. [a3r] Appianus: ‘De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis.’ Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Incipit: ‘[S]enatus populusque Romanus mutuis saepenumero contentionibus de legum latione uel si quando debitorum abrogationes agrorumue partitiones fierent uel in comiciis una adessent dissidebant . . .’
4. [r7v] Zovenzonius, Raphael: ‘Carmen.’ Incipit: ‘Hic est Alexandrinus Appianus | A Candido lingue latine patrono | Romanus. Hunc impressit et Vindelinus | Quem Spira nobilis parens Dedalei | Produxit ingeni faceti lepidique.’ B. Ziliotto, Raffaele Zovenzoni, la vita, i carmi, Celebrazioni degli Istriani illustri, 3 (Trieste, 1950), 160 no. 264.

Imprint:

[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472. Folio.

Collation:

[a¹⁰ b⁸ c¹⁰ d–f⁸ g¹⁰ h–m⁸ n o¹⁰ p⁸ q¹⁰ r⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00931000 GW 2293; H *1306; Goff A‑931; BMC V 160; Pr 4044; BSB‑Ink A‑654; CIBN A‑485; Essling 220; Rhodes 119; Sheppard 3213. LCN: 14268924

Copies:

1. A-366(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [r8]. Binding: Parchment. Size: 331 × 235 × 38 mm. Size of leaf: 330 × 221 mm. Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. On [a2v] a six-line initial is supplied in red with pen-flourishing in pale brown; on [a3r] a seven-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-flourishing in red; other initials are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Purchased for £2. 17. 0; see Books Purchased (1822), 1. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.19.