Co[m]mentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinum Aureum Lucii Apuleii : Mox in reliqua opuscula eiusdem annotationes imprimentur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apuleius.

Contributor:

Beroaldo, Filippo, 1453-1505.

Faelli, Benedetto, -1523, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Metamorphoses

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Classical--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Mythology, Classical.

Metamorphosis--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Metamorphosis.

Genre:

Fiction.

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Bologna -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Floquet, Jaquet (inscription)

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered leaves, 282 leaves ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Asinus aureus

Fingerprint:

a:ro sio- m.ea grsi (3) 1500 (T)

Place of Publication:

Impressum ... Bononiae : A Benedicto Hectoris i[m]pressore ..., Anno salutis Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo Cal[endas]. Augusti [1 Aug. 1500]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf 2X4v, which reads: Impressum hoc opus Bononiae a Benedicto Hectoris i[m]pressore solertissimo, Adhibita su[m]ma diligentia, ut in manus hominu[m] ueniret [quam] emendatissimum. Anno salutis Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo Cal. Augusti. Inclyto Io. Bentiuolo secundo status huiusce Bononiensis Florentissimi habenas foeliciter Modera[n]te.

Chancery folio, with text surrounded by commentary. Leaf A1v: 52 lines, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 229 (235) x 147 (168) mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Register on leaf 2X6r. Errata on leaf 2X5r. Woodcut printer's device (72 x 49 mm.) of Benedetto Faelli on leaf 2X6r: "[Faelli] adopted the usual orb and cross design, but in the lower part of the orb he placed a B, the initial of his forename, within a triangle ... [A]fter Oct. 1498, the broader and shorter design, with unusual vertical shading of the background, was introduced"--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 48.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A-B⁶ [superscript pi]C⁴ a⁴ A-Z⁶ &⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ 2A-2X⁶.

A variant: without table (leaves [superscript pi]A-B⁶ [superscript pi]C⁴). "Although intended to form part of this edition, the table was printed later than the body of the book, as it shows a later state of the commentary type ..., while the paper is also smaller."--BM 15th cent.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 296 x 201 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy: ms. initial "L" supplied by a reader in brown ink on leaf A2r; some early ms. underlines, annotations and marks in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy has 3 unnumbered ms. leaves bound in at end of volume. On the verso of the first leaf are two early 16th-century ms. notes, one dated November 13, 1513, and the other March 2, 1515, describing the appearance of a French boy named Jaquet Floquet and his conjoined twin in Rome and Geneva. On the recto of the second leaf is an early 16th-century(?) ms. transcription of the Latin will of Sempronius Lucidanus (cf. Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze Ms. Palatino 270, contents recorded in I Codici Palatini della R. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, v. 1, fasc. 1 (Rome: Presso i Principali Librai, 1885), p. 457) in left-hand column with emended text in right-hand head column; below the texts appear to be brief notes on a legal issue it raises, with references to Justinian and Paul de Castro. On the verso of the second leaf is an early 16th-century(?) ms. transcription of two Latin verses associated with Olybius's lamp, followed by the text of a letter purportedly written by the Italian humanist Francesco Maturanzio (d. 1518) to a friend regarding this discovery (cf. Corpus Inscriptionarum Latinarum V, pt. I, p. 22*, no. 194*); these are followed by two Latin distichs ("In Patrem cognomine Rubricam" and "In Patrem cognomine Myrtum") in a later hand. On the recto of the third leaf are three Latin epigrams (headed: "In obitu alicuius lapidis morbo intellectus") in the same later hand.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description (of this copy?) affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled parchment; remains of gold-tooled leather reback of spine; all edges marbled red and blue; blue silk marker.

Penn Libraries copy: title leaf ("Commentarij a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in asinu[m] aureu[m] lucij apuleij.") from another edition of this work (Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 29 April 1501; EDIT 16 CNCE 2222) bound in at beginning of volume.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves [superscrpt pi]A1 and [superscript pi]A6 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: hole in leaf 2X6r mended with a blank leaf.

Cited in:

Goff A-938

BM 15th cent. VI, p. 845 (IB.29107)

GW 2305

BSB-Ink. A-657

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3249

ISTC ia00938000

OCLC:

42900580