Procopius De bello Persico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Procopius.

Contributor:

Maffei, Raffaele, 1455-1522.

Mazochius, Jacobus, active 1506-1527, bookseller.

Silber, Eucharius, active 1480-1510, printer.

Muzio, Andrea, active 1509.

Cultre Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

History of the wars. Book 1-4. Latin

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.

Justinian.

Vandals.

Iranians.

Byzantine Empire--History--Justinian I, 527-565.

Byzantine Empire.

History.

Iranians--Early works to 1800.

Vandals--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

De Landau, Horace, barone, 1824-1903 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Palazzo Pitti (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

180 unnumbered pages ; 27 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Procopivs De bello Persico

De bello Persico

Fingerprint:

uita tiei atis secu (C) 1509 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressum Romae : Per magistrum Eucharium Silber al's Franck : Castigatum per Andream Nucium ..., anno salutis MDIX nonis Martiis [7 Mar. 1509]

Notes:

Without pagination.

Signatures: A-P⁶.

Imprint from colophon.

Latin translation of books 1-4 of Procopius's History of the wars by Raffaele da Volterra whose by line "per Raphaelem Volaterranvm conversus" appears in the caption title of each book.

Published by Giacomo Mazzocchi. Cf. Ascarelli's "Annali tipografici di Giacomo Mazzocchi."

Privilege statement (on verso of leaf P6) names Jacobus Mazochius as bookseller: Iulius II Pont. Max. edicto uetuit nequis hunc librum imprimat neue imprimi permittat, siquis contra hinc ad XXV an. fecerit anathema sit noxamque Iacobo Mazochio bibliopole pendat.

Corrected by A. Mucius whose name appears in colophon as "Andream Nucium."

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Baron Horace de Landau (interlocking H's and L's beneath a crown) with stamped accession number "47946" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy in unidentified elaborate gold stamped binding; binding has two gilt roll borders enclosing a central panel with flowers and ornaments and a central medallion above which is a gilt crossed-key device.

Culture Class Collection copy was no. 670 in "Catalogo della mostra storica della legatura artistica in Palazzo Pitti" (Firenze, 1922) with label reading: Mostra storica della legatura artistica in Palazzo Pitti. Firenze 1922. Numero 670 del catalogo.

Cited in:

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, IV, p. 897

EDIT16 CNCE 31013

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints. P580

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, II, p. 299

BM STC Italian 1465-1700, p. 541

Contains:

Procopius. De bello Persico. Latin.

Procopius. De bello Vandalico Latin.

OCLC:

54234163