Cornelij Taciti Historiæ Augustæ
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Cornelij Taciti Historiæ Augustæ
Other titles: Cornelij Tacitii Historiae Augustae; Opera
Classmark: BC Incunabula/TAC
Creator(s): Tacitus, Cornelius
Additional creator(s): Pinzi, Filippo (1490-1530) (Printer); Lanterius, Bernardinus (Editor); Puteolanus, Franciscus (1490) (Editor); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Pinzi, Filippo; Lanterius, Bernardinus; Puteolanus, Franciscus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: p[er] Philippum pinci: sumptibus d[omi]ni Benedicti fontana; Philippus Pincius, for Benedictus Fontana
Publication city: Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni Mccccxcij die.xxij.martij. [22 March 1497]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [114] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106447
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008149399705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-m⁸ n¹⁰ A⁸.
Imprint from second colophon.
First colophon on n10r reads: Cornelij Taciti historie̜ auguste̜ : nec no[n] de situ moribus & populis germanie̜ libellus : ac de oratoribus dialogus fœliciter expliciu[n]t. Venetijs fideliter Impresi ac diligenter emendati p[er] Philippu[m] pinci sumptibus nobilis viri d[omi]ni Benedicti fontana. Anno d[omi]ni Mccccxcvij.die.xxij. Marcij. Imperante sapie[n]tissimo d[omi]no Augustino Barbadico prudentissimi ac Inuictissimi Senatus Venetiarum duce serenissimo.
Second colophon on A7v reads: Venetijs p[er] Philippum pinci : sumptibus d[omi]ni Benedicti fontana. Anno d[omi]ni Mccccxcij die.xxij.martij.
Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus and Bernardinus Lanterius.
Title page [a1r]: Cornelij Taciti Historiæ Augustæ.
Initial spaces, mostly with guide-letters.
Printed headlines for LIBER XI-XXI but misprinted LIEER on b1r-b4r and c1r.
Signatures n1-5 misprinted N, n1-n4.
The first leaf (title page) is unsigned.
Printed with 45 long lines to a full page.
Woodcut publisher's mark of Benedictus Fontana featuring a tree and fountain on leaves n10v and A8r.
Indexed in: ISTC no. it00008000.
Indexed in: Goff T8; HC 15222*; GfT 2210; Pell Ms 10875; CIBN T-6; Polain(B) 3654; IDL 4266; IBE 5389; IGI 9257; IBP 5157; Sajó-Soltész 3175; Voull(B) 4360; Coll(U) 1383; Coll(S) 1016; Madsen 3819; Walsh 2456, 2457; Oates 2075; Sheppard 4404, 4405; Pr 5315; BMC V 497.
Features
Some marginal annotations in an early hand have been washed and are now indistinct.
Bindings
Binding of full red goatskin over pasteboard, probably early twentieth-century. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame comprising a single wide fillet with diagonal lines across the central panel and further decoration with lines of varying lengths at the corners and either side of the panel. The spine has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Tacitus - Historiæ. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine is the date: 1497. The other panels are blind-tooled with a border and frame of single fillets with a small fleuron at the outer corners of the frame. The board edges are blind-tooled with a herringbone pattern and the wide turn-ins are blind-tooled with a repeating ornament incorporating scrolls. Watermark on the title page of a scales within a circle surmounted by a staff with a hook. Size: 307 x 208mm. Leaf size: 300 x200mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
Access
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