Appiani sophiste[m] Alexandrini Romane[m] Historie[m] proemium foeliciter incipit.

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Author / Creator:Appianus, of Alexandria, author.
Uniform title:Historia Romana. Latin
Imprint:[Impressum est hoc opus Venetijs] : [Per Bernardu[m] Pictorem & Erhardum Ratdolt de Augusta una cum Petro Loslein de Langencen correctore ac socio], MCCCCLXXVII [1477]
Description:[132], [212] leaves ; 31 cm (4to)
Language:Latin
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1231605
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Varying Form of Title:Appiani sophistem Alexandrini Romanem Historiem proemium foeliciter incipit.
P. Candidi de Ciuilibus Romanorum bellis ex Appiano Alexandrino in Latinu[m] traductis liber primus incipit
P. Candidi de Ciuilibus Romanorum bellis ex Appiano Alexandrino in Latinum traductis liber primus incipit
Gesta romano[rum] bella
Gesta romanorum bella
Other uniform titles:Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477,
Appianus, of Alexandria. De bellis civilibus. Latin.
Maler, Bernhard, active 1476-1478,
Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528,
Löslein, Peter, active 1476-approximately 1487,
Provenance:Former owner's inscription: 1514[?] Liber fr[atr]is Iohannis Gebhart[?] [con]uentualis in Bappenham [Pappenheim] ordinis Aurelij Augustini.
Blind tooled leather over wooden boards; spine re-backed; cover title: Gesta romano[rum] bella; leather tab marking beginning of second part.
Notes:Title from incipit, [part 1], leaf [3].
Incipit, [part 2], leaf [4]: P. Candidi de Ciuilibus Romanorum bellis ex Appiano Alexandrino in Latinu[m] traductis liber primus incipit. Lege feliciter.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophons: Impressum est hoc opus Venetijs per Bernardu[m] Pictorem & Erhardum Ratdolt de Augusta una cum Petro Loslein de Langencen correctore ac socio. Laus Deo. M.CCCC.LXXVII.
Signatures: a-i¹⁰ k-n⁸ o¹⁰, a-c¹⁰ d¹² e-x¹⁰.
32 lines; Haebler, type 109R; woodcut borders, initials.
Leaves [1], [22] recto, [132] verso, [part 1] and leaves [1] and 212 verso, [part 2] blank.
Hain and Pellechet identify [part 1] as De bellis civilibus and [part 2] as Historia Romana.
"Pars I comprises the Proemium Appiani, Punica, Syriaca, Parthica (Pseudo-Appianus) and Mithridatica. Pars II comprises the five books of De bellis civilibus, Illyrica and Celticorum epitomen (CIBN)"--Incunabula short title catalogue.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ia00928000
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry *1307
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, page 244 (IB. 20486, 87)
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entries 4367, 4368
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry A-928
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 2290
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry A-363
Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables, A-482
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry A-651
Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, entry 915
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, entry 284

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