Macrobij In somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis VI libro de rep. eruditissima explanatio. : eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Censorinus De die natali, additis ex vetusti exemplari nonnullis, quae desiderabantur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius.

Contributor:

Donato, Bernardino, 1483-1543.

Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula, 1451-1529, printer.

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Somnium Scipionis.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Gerhardus, Franckenau Ernestus de, 1676-1749 (autograph) (inscription)

Lamont, A. (autograph)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered leaves, 322, that is, 324 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, map ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Macrobii In somnivm Scipionis ex Ciceronis VI libro de rep. ervditissima explanatio

Fingerprint:

usi- s.e- :&ad tasu (3) 1528 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, MDXXVIII mense Aprili.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on verso of leaf R2.

Aldine printer's device on the title page and on the verso of the last leaf identified as Zappella 38 in EDIT 16.

Signatures: *⁸ -X-⁸ a-z⁸ & ⁸ A-Q⁸ R⁴ (preliminary leaves 15 and 16, and final two leaves are blank, except for device on verso of final leaf).

Spaces with guide letters left for capitals.

Text in Italic type with Roman and Greek quotations.

The only Aldine edition of this work.

Preliminary leaves [15] and [16] and leaf R3 blank.

Errors in foliation: leaves 77 and 207 misfoliated as 67 and 107 respectively.

Includes an introduction by Bernard Donato of Verona to J.B. Rhamnusio.

With several astronomical tables and woodcut map on leaf [77].

"Saturnalia" on leaves 95-292.

"De die natali" by Censorinus on leaves 293-322.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy in red morocco binding with bevelled wooden boards; blind tooled double fillet frames on covers with centerpiece of rosettes and fleurons in cross hatching; floral turn-ins; all edges gilt.

Culture Class Collection copy has signature: "A. Lamont".

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed: Gerardus Ernestus Francus de Frankenau secretarius regius Danice in Hispaniam Ablegationis Mantuo emit Carpetanorum nonis Julii MDCIC d/u [?] R[eichs]th[[a]l[e]r.

Cited in:

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde (3rd ed.), p. 105, no. 2

Adams M62

Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, UCLA, 251

EDIT 16 CNCE 37753

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 401

Contains:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Somnium Scipionis.

Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Saturnalia. 1528.

Censorinus. De die natali.

OCLC:

44828362