[Bibliothecae historicae libri VI]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Bibliothecae historicae libri VI]
Other titles: Bibliotheca historica
Classmark: BC Incunabula/DIO
Creator(s): Diodorus Siculus
Additional creator(s): Bracciolini, Poggio (1380-1459) (Translator); Tacitus, Cornelius (Other); Paltasichis, Andreas de (1476-1493) (Printer); Dolfin, Pietro (1444-1525) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Bracciolini, Poggio; Tacitus, Cornelius; Paltasichis, Andreas de; Dolfin, Pietro; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Per Andrea[m] Iacobi Kathare[n]sem Andrea Vendramino Duce fortunatissimo; Andreas de Paltasichis
Publication city: Impressi Venetiis
Date(s): Mcccclxxyi. Pridie kal[endas]. febr[uarii]. [31 January 1476/77]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [128] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/44621
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007744239705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [*]² a¹⁰ b-k⁸ l⁶ m-n⁸ o⁶ p-q⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on q8r reads: Diodori Siculi Bibliothece historiæ libri: In quibus Prisce res: fabulæ: & multa ac uaria de situ locoru[m] ac moribus gentium co[n]tinentur: Impressi Venetiis per Andrea[m] Iacobi Kathare[n]sem Andrea Vendramino Duce fortunatissimo.Mcccclxxyi. Pridie kal[endas]. febr[uarii].
Includes the Germania of Tacitus.
Printed with 36 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Leaf a1 is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. id00211000.
Indexed in: Goff D-211.
Features
Ocassional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, late-fifteenth or sixteenth-century, especially on leaves a4r to b7v.
Written in black ink manuscript at the top of the front pastedown is the number: CCCXIX.
Notes on the front pastedown in Spanish in pencil manuscript, nineteenth- or early twentieth-century, giving details of the edition.
The first four leaves have been paginated 1-7 in ink manuscript at the upper outer corners.
Missing the last eight leaves containing the Germania of Tacitus.
Bindings
Binding of half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The spine has three raised bands. Blind-tooled in the second panel are the words: Historisrum [sic] priscarum libri VI. Diodorus Siculus. Sine nota. Blind-tooled at the base of the spine is the Brotherton Collection library stamp. The remains of nails in the upper and lower boards suggest that the book was once fastened with clasps. Watermarks of a scales enclosed in a circle surmounted by a star, and a bull's head with horns surmounted by a staff with a flower and a cross. Size: 300 x 211mm. Leaf size: 290 x 203mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink mauscript at the top of p8v, late-fifteenth or sixteenth-century, now partially indistinct: Hic liber e[st] S[ancti?] heremi camaldulen[sis] per R[everend]m d[omi]num Petrum delphinium Generalem : Domino Mauro de bibbiena mo[...] professo ad vitam concessus
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.
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Profile: Pietro Dolfin (1444-1525)
Biography of Pietro Dolfin, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.