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Dionysii Halicarnasei Originum siue antiquitatum Romanarum liber primus[-undecimus] / [translated by Lapus Biragus Florentinus].
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dionysius, of Halicarnassus
- Standardized Title:
- Antiquitates romanae. Latin
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Antiquities.
- History.
- Rome--History--To 510 B.C--Early works to 1800.
- Rome.
- Rome--History--Republic, 510-265 B.C--Early works to 1800.
- Rome--Politics and government--510-30 B.C--Early works to 1800.
- Rome--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Reggio Emilia -- 15th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966 (autograph) (bookplate) (donor)
- Newbold, Arthur Emlen, Jr. (honoree) (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 3 unnumbered leaves, iiii-ccxxvi leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 30 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Dionysii Halicarnasei Originvm sive antiqvitatvm Romanarvm liber primvs[-undecimus]
- Dionysii Halicarnasei Originum sive antiquitatum Romanarum liber primus[-undecimus]
- Originum siue antiquitatum Romanarum liber primus[-undecimus]
- Originvm sive antiqvitatvm Romanarvm liber primvs[-undecimus]
- Originum sive antiquitatum Romanarum liber primus[-undecimus]
- Fingerprint:
- r:im iaet t:ge Acsu (3) 1498 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Impressum Regii : Per me Franciscu[m] de Mazalis, Anno Domini Mcccclxxxxviii die xii Nouembris [12 Nov. 1498]
- Notes:
- Title from caption on leaf a3r; translator's name from leaf D10r.
- "The translator Lampo (or Lampugnino) Birago is often confused with Lapo da Castiglionchio, and so called Florentinus in the editions (M. Miglio in DBI s.v. Birago)"--ISTC.
- Imprint from colophon on leaf D10r, which reads: Dionysii Alicarnasei Romanaru[m] antiquitatum Explicit: Impressum Regii per me Franciscu[m] de Mazalis: Anno Domini Mcccclxxxxviii. die xii. Nouembris.
- Chancery folio. Leaf a4r: 47 lines, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 231 (239) x 133 (155) mm. Initial spaces, some with guide letters. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Woodcut printer's device (61 x 52 mm.) of Franciscus de Mazalibus on leaf D10r, "a variation of the orb and double cross design, with the printer's initials within the orb and with a leafy background"--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 64. Register on leaf D10r.
- Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-z⁸ &⁸ A-C⁸ D¹⁰ (leaf a1 blank).
- Published in Reggio Emilia.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 296 x 199 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
- Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. notes (including corrections to text), underlines, marginal marks and manicules in brown ink in text; a few ms initials supplied in brown ink and one in pencil.
- Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate of Edward B. Krumhaar with his autograph in blue ink on verso of front free endpaper; ms. ownership inscription ("Property of E.B. Krumbhaar MD, 1836 Pine St. Phila") of Edward B. Krumbhaar in blue ink on verso of front free endpaper; ms. purchase note ("(Pope sale) Anderson Galleries 114 RAAX 5/12/10") and bibliographical notes in pencil in the hand of Edward B. Krumbhaar on verso of front free endpaper; paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy and ms. note ("Pope 5/12/10 Anderson 6") in the hand of Edward B. Krumbhaar on verso of front free endpaper.
- Penn Libraries copy has dated twentieth-century ms. inscription ("Presented to the Library of The University of Pennsylvania in memory of Arthur Emlen Newbold, Jr., an alumnus of this University and Secretary of the Board of Managers of the Univ. Hospital at the time of his death, August 1946, by his friend and cousin, EB Krumbhaar. Oct. 21. 1946.") recording the gift of this volume in 1946 to the Penn Libraries by Edward B. Krumbhaar in memory of his cousin, Arthur Emlen Newbold, Jr., in Krumbhaar's hand in blue ink on blank leaf preceding first leaf of text.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf a1 (blank) wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy: lower portion of some leaves in the latter half of volume dampstained; two small holes in lower portion of leaf D10 with minor damage to register; tail outer corner of leaf D10 torn off.
- Cited in:
- Goff D-251
- BM 15th cent. VII, p. 1089 (IB.34040)
- GW 8424
- BN cat. des incun. D-159
- BSB-Ink. D-175
- Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3541, 3542
- OCLC:
- 82495512
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