Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De republica excerptum.
1492
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Title
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De republica excerptum.
Uniform title
Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis
Created/published
Impressi Venetiis : [Giovanni Rosso], anno Domini 1492 die xxviiii Iunii.
Description
[1], LXXXIX [i.e. 90] : ill. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. author.
Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Title from preface (leaf a2r).
Includes Saturnalia.
Imprint from colophon (leaf p4r).
Signatures: a⁸, b-f⁶, g⁶(-g6,+2), h-o⁶, p⁴.
Leaf a1 is blank.
Includes register.
Capital spaces.
The last leaf of quire g is cut away, a complete sheet of print being inserted in place of it outside the quiring.
Leaf g7 omitted in numbering.
Woodcut diagrams and map of the world.
Includes Saturnalia.
Imprint from colophon (leaf p4r).
Signatures: a⁸, b-f⁶, g⁶(-g6,+2), h-o⁶, p⁴.
Leaf a1 is blank.
Includes register.
Capital spaces.
The last leaf of quire g is cut away, a complete sheet of print being inserted in place of it outside the quiring.
Leaf g7 omitted in numbering.
Woodcut diagrams and map of the world.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-12
BM 15th cent., V, p. 417 (IB.23151)
Hain-Copinger, 10429*
BM 15th cent., V, p. 417 (IB.23151)
Hain-Copinger, 10429*
Includes
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Saturnalia. 1492.
Genre/form
Illustrations (layout features)
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Item Details
Call number
INC M8 copy 1
Folger-specific note
Leaf a1, blank, lacking. A few finding notes in brown ink with some initials provided in same ink; a few notes in English and a distich in Latin on verso of back flyleaf.