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Hystoria Troiana Guidonis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Incunables Folio Inc C-774
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.
- Standardized Title:
- Historia destructionis Troiae
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Trojan War--Romances--Early works to 1800.
- Trojan War.
- Troy (Extinct city)--Legends--Early works to 1800.
- Troy (Extinct city).
- Genre:
- Romances.
- Incunabula.
- Legends.
- Physical Description:
- 88 unnumbered leaves ; 29 cm (folio)
- Fingerprint:
- ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ (C) 1489 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- In ciuitate Arge[n]tina imp[re]ssa [that is, Strasbourg : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], Anno d[omi]ni Mcccclxxxix circa festu[m] Sancti Vrbam [ca. 25 July 1494]
- Notes:
- Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).
- Printer's name from ISTC; place and date of printing from colophon on leaf o7r, which reads: Historia destructionis Troie co[m]posita [per] iudicem Guidonem de columna. Messanen[sem]. finit feliciter In ciuitate Arge[n]tina imp[re]ssa nouissime Anno d[omi]ni. M.cccc.lxxxix. circa festu[m] sancti vrbam.
- Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf c5r: 43 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 192 (207) x 120 mm.; col. width: 55 mm. Initial spaces. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.
- Signatures: a⁸ b-n⁶ o⁸.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 282 x 192 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlines supplied in red.
- Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. underlines in brown ink, marks in pencil and notes in brown ink or pencil in text; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on second blank leaf inserted at beginning of volume.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in modern full red cloth; title and author's name stamped in gold on spine; several blank leaves inserted at beginning of volume.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all before leaf c5 (including title leaf) wanting.
- Cited in:
- Goff C-774
- GW 7231
- BSB-Ink. G-436
- Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 238
- ISTC ic00774000
- OCLC:
- 23987757
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