tib00304000

Text-inc Id:

tib00304000

Bod-inc Id:

B-143

Headings:

Bembus, Petrus De Aetna dialogus.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r Bembus, Petrus: De Aetna dialogus [between Bembus Pater and Bembus Filius], addressed to Angelus Chabrielis. ‘Petri Bembi de Aetna ad Angelum Chabrielem liber.’ Incipit: ‘Factum a nobis pueris est ...’ D6v Explicit: ‘... ille cogitabundus in bibliothecam perrexit.’ Pietro Bembo, De Aetna, trans. with introduction by Vittorio Enzo Alfieri, notes by Marcello Carapezza and Leonardo Sciascia (Palermo, 1981), 43-59.
2. D6r Colophon: ‘Impressum Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Romani mense februario anno M. VD.’

Imprint:

Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Feb. 1495/6. 4°. Secundo folio: fieri posse vix puto ...

Collation:

A–C⁸ D⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian; BL (C.5.a.30) ISTC: ib00304000 GW 3810; HC *2765; Goff B‑304; BMC V 554; Pr 5550; BSB‑Ink B‑269; Curt F. Bühler, ‘Manuscript Corrections in the Aldine Edition of Bembo's De Aetna’, Early Books and Manuscripts: Forty Years of Research (New York, 1973), 170-5, repr. from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 45 (1951), 136-42; CIBN B‑208; Scapecchi, ‘Annali', 6; Sheppard 4616. LCN: 13932527

Copies:

1. B-143(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century English green morocco, stamped on both covers, in gold, with the Aldine anchor, and with gilt-edged leaves; endpapers watermarked ‘1801'. Size: 209 × 157 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 203 × 145 mm. Very faint marginal notes and correction(?) in a contemporary hand, washed out. Provenance: Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), Catalogue (1834), pt V no. 150. Purchased for £5. 15. 6; see Books Purchased (1834), 3. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2R 3.86.