[Commentarii / Julius Caesar ; ed. Girolamo Bologni. Index commentariorum C. Julii Caesaris / Raimundus Marlianus].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caesar, Julius.

Contributor:

Hirtius, Aulus.

Marlianus, Raimundus, approximately 1420-1475.

Bologni, Girolamo, 1454-1517.

Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jay I. Kislak Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1482

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

History.

Gaul--History--58 B.C.-511 A.D--Early works to 1800.

Gaul.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Kislak, Jay I. (donor)

Short, Charles (former owner) (inscription)

Syracuse Public Library (bookplate)

Physical Description:

148 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

G. Iulii Caesaris commentariorum de bello Gallico liber primus

Fingerprint:

t.ad usi. e-es camu (C) 1482 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressu[m] Venetiis : Opera & expensis Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis, M.CCCCLXXXII. xii. kal. septe[m]bris [21 Aug. 1482]

Contents:

G. Iulii Caesaris Commentariorum de bello Gallico liber primus[-septimus et additio A. Hirtii]

G. Iulii Caesaris Commentariorum de bello ciuili liber primus[-tertius]

A. Hirtii aut Opii Commentariorum de bello Alexandrino liber quartus

A. Hirtii aut Opii Commentariorum de bello Africo liber quintus

A. Hirtii aut Opii Commentariorum de bello Hispaniensi liber sextus

Index commentariorum G. Iulii Caesaris & earum rerum quas ad cognitionem urbium & fluminum & locorum uir clarissimus & eruditissimus Raymundus Marlianus i[n]uenit atque addidit.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger from ISTC.

Caption title on leaf a2r reads: G. Iulii Caesaris commentariorum de bello Gallico liber primus.

Edited by Girolamo Bologni. Cf. ISTC.

Imprint from colophon on leaf x6r, which reads: Impressu[m] Venetiis opera & expensis Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis. M.CCCCLXXXII. xii. kal. septe[m]bris.

Median folio. Leaf a3r: 41 lines, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 213 (222) x 141 (166) mm. Initial spaces. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Register on leaf x6r.

Signatures: a⁸ b-x⁸/⁶ (leaf a1 blank).

Leaf h1 unsigned; leaf s2 signed "r ii".

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 294 x 213 mm.

Kislak Collection copy: rubrication: 9-line red initial G on a blue ground with green and yellow flowers, the whole bordered in red on leaf a2r; text of leaf a2r (below caption title) surrounded by red and blue border; initials supplied in red or blue ink (some accompanied by a smaller initial in brown ink).

Kislak Collection copy has early ms. manicule in brown ink in tail margin of leaf a3v; a few early ms. marginal marks in brown ink in text; early ms. correction to text in brown ink on leaf a8r; ms. inscription ("WMAH") in pencil on front pastedown; ms. inscription ("obb J[?]W.R. Dec. 1863") in pencil on back pastedown.

Presented to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts by Jay I. Kislak in 2014.

Kislak Collection copy has on front pastedown early 20th-century bookplate, with ms. shelf-marks in brown ink "093 1482" and pencil ("Smith I-4"), recording the donation of this book to the Syracuse Public Library as part of the J. William Smith Collection in honor of Rev. Ezekiel Wilson Mundy. Cf. C.M. Daggett, Syracuse Public Library: Catalogue of the J. William Smith Collection (Syracuse, 1910), p. 4.

Kislak Collection copy has dated 19th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Ex libris Caroli Short Mense Dec. MDCCCLXIII") of a Charles Short, possibly the classicist Charles Short (1821-1886), president of Kenyon College and subsequently professor of Latin at Columbia University.

Kislak Collection copy bound in full brown leather; boards double-ruled in blind; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-ruled spine panels; 3 gold-stamped black leather spine labels, 1 with title ("G. IULII CESARIS COMMENTA"), 1 with place and date of imprint (detached) and 1 with partial shelf-mark (detached). Spine damaged; boards damaged at corners.

Kislak Collection copy: leaf x5 torn near inner margin with minor damage to text (particularly on verso, which shows evidence of a repair attempt); hole and tear in leaf x6 near inner margin (mended with a blank leaf on verso) with some loss of text.

Kislak Collection copy has a few pinpoint wormholes in upper portion of leaves a1-e5; small wormholes in inner margin of many leaves; leaves dampstained at inner margin.

Cited in:

Goff C-22

BM 15th cent., V, p. 277 (IB.21184)

GW 5869

BSB-Ink. C-28

BN cat. des incun. C-10

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1783

ISTC ic00022000

Related Work:

Marlianus, Raimundus, approximately 1420-1475. Index commentariorum G. Julii Caesaris.

OCLC:

881401497