Historia de origine Troianorum foeliciter lege.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dares, Phrygius

Contributor:

Florentius, de Argentina, active 1472, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Troy (Extinct city)--Legends--Early works to 1800.

Troy (Extinct city).

Genre:

Incunabula.

Legends.

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Historia de origine Troianorvm foeliciter lege

Goff title: De excidio Troiae historia

Incipit of text: Incipit historia Daretis Frigii de excidio Troie

Fingerprint:

t.ne sqne t.di leue (C) 1472 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Florentius de Argentina], [1472?]

Notes:

Title from caption on leaf [a]1r.

Imprint from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf [a]2v: 25 lines; area of text: 148 x 81 mm. Initial spaces. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]-[b]¹⁰ [c]⁸.

Leaf [c]8 is blank.

Explicit on leaf [c]7v reads: De bello troiano liber explicit. Telos.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 205 x 149 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has many ms. marks, some annotations and a few corrections to text in brown ink; partially illegible ms. inscription ("Storia [...] .50.") on leaf [c]8v; modern ms. foliation in pencil in head outer corner of leaves [a]1-[b]4 ("1"-"14"), [b]6-[b]7 ("15"-"16") and [b]9-[c]8 ("17"-"26").

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1954.

Penn Libraries copy bound in modern paper boards; gold-tooled red leather spine label ("DARES PHRYGIUS 1472"); evidence of finding tab at fore-edge of leaf [a]1.

Penn Libraries copy has stain in fore-edge margin of leaf [b]10v.

Cited in:

Goff D-41

BM 15th cent. V, p. 204 (IA.19967)

GW 7987

BN cat. des incun. D-22

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1627

ISTC id00041000

OCLC:

17416029