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tia01178000
- Text-inc Id:
- tia01178000
- Bod-inc Id:
- A-483
- Headings:
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Attila Flagellum Dei [Italian]
- Analysis of content:
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[*1r] ‘Le rubriche over tabula sopra la sequente opera chiamata Atila flagellum Dei.’
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a2r ‘Il libro di Atila.’ Incipit: ‘[I]ntendendo li pagani de Ungaria e de molte altre prouincie e nationi . . .’ See A‑482.
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f7v [Historical note on Attila.] Incipit: ‘Atila persecutore de la Christiana fede primamente uenne uerso Aquilegia nel tempo de Papa Leone . . .’
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f8r [Colophon with a note on the editor, Bartholomaeus Theus.]
- Imprint:
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Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 15 Oct. 1477. 4°.
- Collation:
- [*2] a10 b–f8.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ia01178000
GW 2766;
HR 1911;
Goff A‑1178;
BMC V 220;
Pr 4266;
CIBN A‑643; Sheppard 3442.
LCN: 13981007
- Copies:
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A-483(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf a1 and sheets f3.6 and f4.5.
Binding: Nineteenth-century mottled calf; the spine gold-tooled with a stamp of an orientalizing tripod surrounded by a tendril; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 212 × 143 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 133 mm.
Woodcut medallion depicting Attila pasted on front endleaf.
On f8r-v a note in a sixteenth-century hand of a letter written by Lorenzo de' Medici to the Signoria of Florence, dated 7 Dec. 1479, incipit: ‘Excelsa signoria mia etc. Se jo non o altriment[i] fatto noto a v[ostra] excelsa signoria la cagone d[i] mia partita . . .' (Lorenzo de' Medici, Lettere, IV (1479-80), ed. Nicolai Rubinstein (Florence, 1981), 265-70, no. 444). Scribbles on f8v.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 100.
