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tih00086000

Text-inc Id:
tih00086000
Bod-inc Id:
H-052
Headings:
Herodianus Historia de imperio post Marcum.
Analysis of content:
  1. aa1v Politianus, Angelus: [Introductory letter addressed to] Andreas Magnanimus. Incipit: ‘Efflagitari scribis istic ab iis qui libros excudunt formis Herodianum meum . . .’
  2. aa2r Politianus, Angelus: ‘Prefatio' [addressed to] Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[C]um Romae abhinc triennium ferme in comitatu essem Florentinae legationis . . .’
  3. aa3r Herodianus: Historia de imperio post Marcum. Translated by Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui res antiquas posteris prodiderunt ueteremque historiæ memoriam . . . [I]mperator Marcus filias quidem suscepit complures mares autem duos . . .’
Imprint:
Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 31 Aug. 1493. Folio.
Collation:
aa–hh8 ii4.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00086000 HC *8467; Goff H‑86; BMC VI 827; Pr 6598; BSB‑Ink H‑118; Rhodes 904; Sack, Freiburg, 1799; Sheppard 5344. LCN: 14509434
Copies:
  1. H-052(1) Copy Wanting leaves gg1-4, and ii1-3. Binding: Twentieth-century blind-tooled mottled calf. Size: 312 × 212 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 196 mm. Two- to six-line initials are supplied in red or blue, many with infill and decoration in the other colour. Provenance: Charles Butler (1821-1910); printed label; sale, Sotheby's, 5 Apr. 1911, lot 531; cutting from sale catalogue on the front pastedown. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased at Butler's sale for £2. 0. 0; Elenchus, no. 1614a. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. C 5.7.