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Laurentij Vallensis e Greco in Latinum translatio Thucydidis ad Sa[n]ctissimum Dominum n[ost]r[u]m D[omin]um Nicolaum Papam Quintum proemium feliciter incipit ...
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfilm 4299
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Thucydides.
- Standardized Title:
- History of the Peloponnesian War. Latin
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
- Greece.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 184 leaves (2 columns) (bound) : parchment, illustrations ; 38 cm
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1452 ... Mensis Julii, die XIIII.
- Notes:
- MS.
- Title from incipit to prologue.
- Ms. shelfmark: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Vat. Lat. 1801.
- Contains a note in different script following the scribe's colophon to the effect that the MS. has been examined and corrected by Valla and may serve as an archetype for correcting other copies.
- "Ego Ioa[n]nes Lamperti de Rode[n]berg posteaq[uam] translatum est hoc opus primus transcripsi M.CCCC.LII ... Mensis Iulii, die XIIII, Rome"--scribal colophon.
- "Thucydidis historia[rum] Peloponennsium liber primus incipit"--leaf
- Microfilm. [Citta del Vaticano] : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1974. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Includes marginal notes.
- The first letter of each book is illuminated, and the speeches are set off with a red title and decorated first initial.
- OCLC:
- 83801863
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