TEXT-inc
a corpus of texts printed in the 15th century

TEXT-inc

tim00592500

Text-inc Id:
tim00592500
Bod-inc Id:
M-224
Headings:
Mirabilia Romae
Analysis of content:
  1. [a2r] Mirabilia Romae. Incipit: ‘[M]urus vrbis habet trrcentas(!) sexaginta et vnam turres . . .’ Explicit: et est ecclesia fratrum minorum See M‑222.
Imprint:
[Rome: Johann Besicken and Sigismundus Mayer, c.1495]. 8°.
Collation:
[a8]. Type: 71 G. Lombard M. 8 leaves. 29 lines ([a4v]). Type area: 104 ×61 mm ([a4v]). Woodcut of Rhea Silvia, and the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus on [a1v]. Leaf [a1v] [woodcut, Rhea Silvia]. [a2r]: ‘Mirabilia Romane vrbis | MVrus vrbis habet trrcentas ſe- | xaginta [et] vnam turres . . .'; [a8v], l. 22: ‘[et] eſt eccleſia fratrum mino: | Finiūt mirabilia vrbis:'.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00592500 Pr 3985; Miedema 189, no. l 64; not in Pollak, Le guide di Roma; not in Rossetti, Rome: I: The Guide Books; Sheppard 3169. LCN: 14027819
Copies:
  1. M-224(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) half purple morocco; marbled paper boards and pastedowns. Size: 135 × 98 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 130 × 90 mm. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce 6. SHELFMARK: Douce 32.