Attila Callimachi poetae & oratoris regis poloniae clarissimi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buonaccorsi, Filippo, 1437-1496.

Contributor:

Aemilianus, Quintus.

Strata, Antonius de, active 1479-1492, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Attila, -453--Early works to 1800.

Attila.

Attila, -453.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Vita Attiliae

Fingerprint:

t.em deis tqet seme (C) 1489 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Antonius de Strata, de Cremona], [1489?]

Contents:

Cimbriaci poetae protrepticon in Attila[m] Callimachi

Quintius Haemylianus Cimbriacus in Attilae Callimachi auscultationem ad Max. D. Phederici Caes. F. Ro. reg. augustiss.

Cimbriaci Poetae propenticon in Attilam Callimachi Encomiasticos

Attila Callimachi poetae & oratoris regis poloniae clarissimi

Eiusde[m] ad Lazarinu[m] arimine[n]se[m] Venetae militiae Ductorem Clariss.

Cimbriacus Poeta ad Callimachum.

Notes:

Consists of a life of Attila by Filippo Buonaccorsi (writing under the name Callimachus), as well as several poems and a dedicatory epistle to Emperor Maximilian by Quintus Aemilianus (writing also under the name Cimbriacus).

Title from caption on leaf a6r.

Imprint from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 30 lines; area of text: 156 x 100 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a-b⁸.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 205 x 147 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has many early Latin ms. marginal notes in brown ink.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1956.

Penn Libraries copy: leaf a1 mended with a blank leaf at fore-edge (evidence of finding tab?); leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Goff B-1284

GW 0573610N

ISTC ib01284000

OCLC:

249333102