[Historiae Romanae decades]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Historiae Romanae decades]
Other titles: Ab urbe condita
Classmark: BC Incunabula LIV
Creator(s): Livy
Additional creator(s): Sabellico (1436?-1506) (Editor); Giunta, Luca-Antonio (1457-1538) (Publisher); Pinzi, Filippo (1490-1530) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: per Philippum Pincium Mantuanum: summa cura & diligenti studio impressæ, [for Lucantonio Giunta]; Philippus Pincius, for Lucantonio Giunta
Publication city: Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno ab Incarnatione domini.M.ccccxcv.iii.nonas nouembris. [3 November 1495]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 20 unnumbered pages, CCLIII, 1 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/57424
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007758279705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ b⁴ c-l⁸ m-n¹⁰ 2A⁸ B-K⁸ L¹⁰ aa-ii⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on ii7v reads: T. Liuii patauini Decades expliciunt. Venetiis per Philippum Pincium Mantuanum: summa cura & diligenti studio impressæ. Anno ab Incarnatione domini.M.ccccxcy.iii.nonas nouembris. Imperante Serenissimo Augustino Barbadico Venetiarum duce fœlicissimo.
Edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus.
Printer's mark in red on ii7v with the monogram LA.
Ornamental woodcut intials.
The text contains 171 woodcut illustrations.
There are woodcut architectural borders on leaves [I], [XCIII] and [CLXXXIII], each with an inset figure in the tympanum of a scholar at a reading-desk, and enclosing, respectively, a large woodcut of a battle scene, Hannibal's Oath, and the reception of the ambassadors of Ptolemy VI by the Roman Senate.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. il00247000.
Indexed in: HC 10141; Goff L247; GfT 2210, 2211; Essling 34; Sander 3998; Pell Ms 7216 (7157); CIBN L-186; Polain(B) 4530; IDL 2976; IGI 5780; IBE 3532; IBP 3431; IJL 200; Sajó-Soltész 2079; Voull(B) 4353; Hubay(Augsburg) 1317; Sack(Freiburg) 2256; Borm 1697; Walsh 2453, 2454; Oates 2073; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1100; Pr 5308; BMC V 496; BSB-Ink L-194.
Features
This copy is wanting the first three leaves and the final blank leaf.
Leaves A4-A6 have been mounted.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full parchment over pasteboard. The spine has four raised bands. The pastedowns are of blue and cream patterned paper. Size: 324 x225mm. Leaf size: 314 x 215mm.
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
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