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Author: Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
Short Title: Historia rerum ubique gestarum (1477)
Title: Pii II Pontificis Maximi Historia rerum ubique gestarum : cum locorum descriptione non finita Asia Minor ....
Imprint: Venice: [Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1477]
Comments and Notes: First part only of an unfinished work; primarily deals with the ancient history of Asia Minor. Title from incipit (leaf a2 recto). Imprint from Goff. Colophon (leaf l10 recto) reads: Pii ii Ponti. Maximi Historiae rerum ubiq[ue] gestaru[m] prima pars finitur: & impressioni Venetiis dedita, per Iohannem de Colonia sociumq[ue] eius Iohannem Manthen de Gherretzem anno millesimo cccclxxvii. Signatures: a-f10 g-h8 i-l10. Leaves printed on both sides; 34-35 lines per page. Leaf a1 is blank; wanting in Dibner Library copy. Guide-letters. Leaf k1 missigned as l1. Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Signature on front free endpaper: Antonio Orsetti. Old ms. annotations; some affected by cropped margins. Bookseller's catalog description of this ed. pasted on front free endpaper. Old limp vellum binding; ties lacking; title inked on spine. In modern portfolio.
Smithsonian Call Number: DS155 .P69 1477
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIP00730000-B
P-0730
 
 
 
 

Author: Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
Short Title: Epistolae in Pontificatu editae (1487)
Title: Epistola siue Oratio Pii in conuentu Mantuano.
Imprint: Milan: [Antonius Zarotus, for Johannes Petrus Novariensis, Oct. 1487]
Comments and Notes: Caption title (leaf a2 recto). Imprint from Goff. Leaf pi1 recto reads: Tituli epistolarum Pii Secundi: pontificis maximi: quae in hoc diuino codice continentur ... Colophon (leaf U8 recto) reads: Has Pii Secundi: pont. Max. epistolas q[uas] diligentissime castigatas Antonius Zarothus impressit opera & impendio Iohannis Petri Nouariensis. Anno Domini. M.cccclxxxyii Octobris. Signatures: pi3, a-c8, d-e4, f-g8, h4, i-m8, n4, o-u8. Leaf pi3 is blank. Leaves printed on both sides; 35 lines per page. Spaces left for initials. Imperfect copy: leaves pi1-pi3 lacking. Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Printed bookseller's catalog description of this edition pasted on front paste-down. Modern full vellum binding; gilt-stamped red leather spine label; yapp edges.
Smithsonian Call Number: BX1308 .P69 1487
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIP00726000-B
P-0726
 
 
 
 

Author: Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
Short Title: In Europam (1491)
Title: Aeneas Siluius in Europam.
Imprint: Memmingen: [Albrecht Kunne, not after March 1491]
Comments and Notes: Pellechet dates: 1485?. Edited by Michael Cristan. cf. NUC pre-56, v. 460, p. 311. Imprint supplied from Goff P-727. Signatures: a6 b-l8 (l8 blank) Ms. marginalia throughout. Dibner gift. Imperfect copy: lacks t.p., which is provided in facsimile. With: Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio. [Paris] : Venales reperiu[n]tur in vico Sancti Iacobi sub Leone Argenteo, [not before December, 1507] -- Solinus de memorabilibus mundi. [Paris] : Venundatur Parrhisiis in regione Diui Iacobi sub Leone Argenteo, [1503?]
Smithsonian Call Number: D913 .P69
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIP00727000-B
P-0727