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Dyalogus Luciani p[hilosoph]i quomodo solus nudus per Acheronta transuehi potest : vna cum contentione trium summo[rum] ducu[m] de artis imperatoria presidencia apud inferos sub Minone iudice.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucian, of Samosata
- Standardized Title:
- Dialogues of the dead. Selections. Latin
- Language:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Lucian, of Samosata--Translations into Latin.
- Lucian.
- Lucian, of Samosata.
- Dialogues, Greek--Translations into Latin.
- Dialogues, Greek.
- Satire, Greek--Translations into Latin.
- Satire, Greek.
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Goff title: Dialogus, quomodo solus nudus per Acheronta transvehi potest
- Fingerprint:
- stgo nqno itte iner (C) 1492 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- [Leipzig] : [Martin Landsberg], [1492?]
- Notes:
- Title from title leaf (leaf A1r).
- Imprint from ISTC.
- Chancery quarto. Leaf A3r: 28 lines; area of text: 159 x 77 mm. Initial spaces. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.
- Signatures: A⁶.
- "De funerali pompa (Dial. mortuorum 10), with Rinucius' preface, is printed here under the title Dialogus quomodo solus nudus per Acheronta transvehi potest, and the translation assigned to 'Arispa' (so catalogued by Goff and others). The De praecedentia ... (Dial. mortuorum 12) really translated by Aurispa is also found under the title De praestantia (De presidentia) trium principum"--ISTC.
- Also contains De praecedentia Alexandri Hannibalis et Scipionis translated by Johannes Aurispa.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 202 x 140 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
- Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1949.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in one-quarter blind-ruled leather over marbled paper boards; blind rules on spine; author's name and imprint place and date ("LUCIANUS * LEIPZIG * CA. 1492") stamped in gold on spine; a few blank leaves inserted at end of volume; leather finding tab affixed to fore-edge of leaf A6.
- Cited in:
- Goff L-324
- GW M19034
- BSB-Ink. L-239
- ISTC il00324000
- OCLC:
- 58870495
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