tip00907000

Text-inc Id:

tip00907000

Bod-inc Id:

P-429

Headings:

Polybius Historiae (trans. Nicolaus Perottus).

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Perottus, Nicolaus: ‘Prohemium' [addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[A]bsolui tandem aliquando delegatum mihi abste munus . . .’
2. [a4r] Polybius: Historiae. Translated from the Greek by Nicolaus Perottus. Incipit: ‘[S]i ab iis qui res gestas ante nos scripserunt laudem historie pretermissam esse contingeret . . .’ Explicit: ab initio statuimus conuertemus’ See N. Pace, ‘La traduzione di Niccolò Perotti delle Historiae di Polibio', Res publica litterarum: Studies in the Classical Tradition, 11 (1988), 221-34; M. Milne, ‘Two Humanistic Translations of Polybius', Res Publica Litterarum, 12 (1989), 123-9; N. Pace, ‘Ancora sulla traduzione di Niccolò Perotti delle Historiae di Polibio', Res Publica Litterarum, 14 (1991), 177-84.
3. [s7r] [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Aspicis illustris lector quicunque libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosse lege'; 3 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 31 Dec. 1473 [i.e. 1472?]. Folio. For the date see C.F. Bühler, ‘False Information in the Colophons of Incunabula', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 114 (1970), 398.

Collation:

[a–c¹⁰ d–l⁸ m¹⁰ n⁸ o¹⁰ p q⁸ r¹⁰ s⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00907000 HC *13246; Goff P‑907; BMC IV 16; Pr 3336; BSB‑Ink P‑672; CIBN P‑555; Rhodes 1457; Sheppard 2645. LCN: 14086429

Copies:

1. P-429(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment, with parchment endleaves and the gold stamp of the Bodleian library on both covers; sprinkled blue-edged leaves. Size: 335 × 235 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 324 × 217 mm. On [a4r] a branch-work border and initial are supplied in gold and colours; similar initials are supplied at the beginning of each book; see Pächt and Alexander II, 107 no. pr. 27 (Rome). Provenance: In the lower margin of [a4r], within a wreath, an Italian painted coat of arms: azure, a tower gules; these are identical with the arms of Gioachino Torriano, OP, Prior of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (1406-1500), for which see S. Marcon, ‘Per la biblioteca a stampa del domenicano Gioachino Torriano', Miscellanea Marciana, 1 (1986), 223-48, with plates. Cardinal Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne(?) (1727-1794); note by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in his copy of the sale catalogue of Loménie's books (ex informatione John Goldfinch). Purchased for £29. 14. 0; see Books Purchased (1792), 1. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.22.