Diogenes Laercius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diogenes Laertius.

Contributor:

Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439.

Brugnoli, Benedetto, 1427-1502.

Pinzi, Filippo, active 1490-1530, printer.

Fontana, Benedictus, active 1495-1505, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Lives, teachings, and sayings of famous philosophers. Latin

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves, iii-xcv leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Diogenes Laercivs

Goff title: Vitae et sententiae philosophorum

Fingerprint:

teis e-o- i-u- Cldi (C) 1497 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressum Venetijs : Per Philippum Pinzi : Sumptibus ... Benedicti Fontana, Anno d[omi]ni Mccccxcvij die xxij Iunij [22 June 1497]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Translated by Ambrogio Traversari; edited by Benedetto Brugnoli. Cf. ISTC.

Imprint from colophon on leaf m7r, which reads: Impressum Venetijs per Philippum Pinzi. Sumptibus domini Benedicti Fontana: Anno d[omi]ni. M.ccccxcvij. die. xxij. Iunij.

Chancery folio. Leaf a4r: 46 lines, plus headline; area of text: 245 (251) x 148 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Woodcut publisher's device of Benedictus Fontana on leaf m8r. Register on leaf m7r.

Signatures: a-m⁸.

Errors in foliation; sequence reads: [2], iii-viii, viii-xi, xiii-lxxvii, lxxx-lxxxi, lxxx-lxxxvii, lxxxix, lxxxix, xc-xcv, [1].

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 303 x 210 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. notes in brown ink and a few ms. notes in pencil in text; a few ms. underlines in brown ink in text; illegible ms. inscription (in code?) in brown ink at head of front pastedown; early ms. bibliographical note in brown ink and modern ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front free endpaper; ms. folio number supplied in brown ink at head of leaf a2r; ms. corrections to folio numbers on leaves k6r and k7r; ms. guide letter supplied in brown ink on leaf a3r.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1926 through the Class of 1887 Fund.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible dated 17th-century ms. purchase inscription ("7o. Id. Ap[ri]lis 1691. H. B[...]ch[...] Pisan[...] emit") in brown ink on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full early parchment; spine mended.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf m8 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: some leaves in latter half of volume dampstained at inner margin; wormhole in head inner corner of leaves a1-a7.

Cited in:

Goff D-225

BM 15th cent. V, p. 498 (IB.23680)

GW 8384

BN cat. des incu. D-136

BSB-Ink. D-160

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2461-2463

ISTC id00225000

OCLC:

249493709