tic01000000

Text-inc Id:

tic01000000

Bod-inc Id:

C-495

Headings:

Curtius Rufus, Quintus Historiae Alexandri Magni.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Curtius Rufus, Quintus: Historiae Alexandri Magni. See C‑493.

Imprint:

Milan: Antonius Zarotus, for Johannes de Legnano, 26 Mar. 1481. 4°.

Collation:

a–p⁸ q⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic01000000 GW 7873; HCR 5882 = H 5881?; Goff C‑1000; BMC VI 717; Pr 5808; Ganda 85; Rhodes 644; Sheppard 4857. LCN: 14428241

Copies:

1. C-495(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf a1. Early marginal notes, extracting key words, now washed. Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco; marbled pastedowns; the spine gold-tooled; gold-tooled dentelle border, consisting of two rolls on both covers, and a roll on turn-ins. Perhaps bound for Lord Harley. Size: 275 × 203 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 266 × 187 mm. Provenance: Milan, Dominicans, S. Maria Gratiarum; on q5v, faded inscription: ‘Est conuentus S. Marie gratiarum M[edio]l[an]i, in suburbio porte V[er]cellin[e]'. Perhaps Edward, Lord Harley, later 2nd Earl of Oxford (1689-1741); evidence of binding; not found in London, BL, MS. Harley 3886; not found in Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae; upper corner of the front endleaf not cut off, as in other Harleian books. William George Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), 6th Duke of Devonshire; note by Heber with price £3. 16. 0. Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 1511. Purchased for £2. 14. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 24. SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.24.