Caii Suetonii Tranquilli De vita XII Caesarum liber primus[-duodecimus] incipit.
Imprint:
Bologna: Per me Platonem de Benedictis ..., anno salutis 1488 septimo Calendas Martias [23 Feb.]
Comments
and Notes:
Have not located this edition in ISTC yet. Not in Goff.
Hain-Copinger 15125* ; Proctor 6583; BM v. 232, col. 348
Edited by Simon Pasqualis Iadertinus.
Caption title from incipit, leaf a3 recto.
Leaf a2 recto has caption title, which reads: Ausonius Hesperio filio salute[m]: In libros Suetonii.
Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf q4 recto).
Leaves printed on both sides; 44 lines per page.
Signatures: a8 b-p6 q4.
Leaf a1 is blank.
Guide-letters; spaces for initials.
Bookplate: Dottor Bruno Guaraldi.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Bookplate: C.P. (a woodcut image of death holding actors' masks; the initials appear on pages of an open book).
Stamp on leaf a2 recto: Biblioteca Comunitativa Magnani, Bologna; other stamps illegible.
Faint traces of old ms. notes in margins.
Modern full leather binding; gilt-tooled spine.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
DG291.6 .S94 1488
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
ZZ1
0
0
0
Author:
Suetonius, ca. 69-ca. 122
Short
Title:
De vita Caesarum
(1496)
Title:
Suetonius Tranquillus : cum Philippi Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici commentariis.
Imprint:
Venice: Per Simonen [i.e. Simonem] cognomento Beuilaqua, Papiensem, anno Christianae salutis 1496.
Comments
and Notes:
ISTC does not list this as being in the Dibner Library.
Contains the De vita Caesarum, with commentaries surrounding the text.
In Latin, with some words and phrases in Greek.
Title from leaf 2a1 recto (wanting in Dibner Library copy).
Caption title for the text (leaf a1 recto) reads: Caii Suetonii Tranquilli De uita duodecim Caesarum liber primus [-duodecimus].
Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf S5 recto), which reads as shown in BM 15th cent.
Leaves printed on both sides; 62 lines of commentary per page.
Signatures: 2a4 a-z8 &8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-R8 S6.
Final leaf (S6) is blank; wanting in Dibner Library copy.
Initials; guide-letters; spaces for initials; side-notes; printer's device on leaf S5 recto.
Imperfect: Leaves 2a1 and S6 wanting; leaves 2a2-2a4 have been misbound at the end of the volume, in this order: 2a3, 2a4, 2a2.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Some old ms. annotations.
Bound in modern half-vellum over paperboard; name of author inked on spine.