[De viris illustribus].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Victor, Sextus Aurelius.

Pliny, the Younger

Riessinger, Sixtus, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De viris illustribus urbis Romae.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Emperors--Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Emperors.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

History.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Biographies.

Incunabula.

Fingerprint:

++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ (C) 1470 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Rome] : Sixtus Ruesinger, [1470?]

Notes:

"Authorship unknown. Here attributed to Pliny the Younger, but generally to Aurelius Victor from the sixteenth century. (M.M. Sage, The De Viris Illustribus: authorship and date, Hermes 108, (1980), pp. 83-100)."--ISTC. Also sometimes attributed to Cornelius Nepos and Suetonius.

Title supplied from Goff.

Printer's name from last printed leaf; place and date of printing supplied from ISTC. Fava and Bresciano assigned to Naples. On ascription to Rome see BMC IV ix-x. Dated about 1467-1468 in BN cat. des incun.

Also contains: De historia Romana by Sextus Rufus.

Royal octavo. Leaf c10r: 33 lines; area of text: 132 x 71 mm. Initial spaces. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]¹² [b]-[d]¹⁰.

Leaves [a]1, [c]6, [d]9 and [d]10 are blanks.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves [c]7-[d]9 (De historia Romana) only.

Leaf size: 195 x 135 mm.

Rubrication: floriate initial B with marginal extensions illuminated in gold and colors (red, blue and green) on leaf [c]7r; other initials supplied in red or blue ink over ms. guide letters in brown ink.

Penn Libraries copy has a few ms. underlines and marginal marks in brown ink; ms. marginal note in brown ink on leaf [c]10r; a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full dark red morocco; boards double-ruled in gold; 5 raised bands on spine; spine tooled in gold; author's name ("Sextus Rufus") and supposed place and date of printing ("Napoli 1470") stamped in gold on spine; all edges gilt.

Penn Libraries copy: upper board detached.

Cited in:

Goff A-1383

BM 15th cent. IV, p. 27 (IA.17433)

GW M50384

BN cat. des incun. V-199

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1319

ISTC ia01383000

Contains:

Rufus, Sextus. De historia Romana.

OCLC:

644313107