Pomponij Mellae Cosmographi geographia : Prisciani quoq[ue] ex Dionysio Thessalonicensi De situ orbis interpretatio.
Imprint:
Venice: Erhardus Ratdolt Auguste[n]sis impressit ..., 15. Calen. Augusti [18 July] anno salutis nostre 1482.
Comments
and Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf A2 recto).
Imprint from colophon (leaf F8 recto).
Signatures: A-F8.
Leaves printed on both sides; 30-31 lines per page.
Printed in black and red; initials.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
A description of another copy of this edition from an unidentified bookseller's catalog is laid in.
Some marginal annotations in ink in an old hand throughout; Priscian's verse interpretation is extensively annotated.
Modern half-vellum binding over green paper boards.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
PA6512 .A2 1482
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIM00452000-B
M-0452
Author:
Mela, Pomponius
Short
Title:
De chorographia
(1493)
Title:
Pomponii Melae Cosmographi de situ orbis liber primus.
Imprint:
Venice: [Christoforo di Pensa, da Mandello, after 1493?]
Description
[38] leaves ; 21 cm. (4to)
Comments
and Notes:
Imprint from Goff; Hain-Copinger-Reichling suggests another imprint: Romae, Eucharius Silber, 1493; BM STC Italian suggests same imprint as Goff, with different date: 1495?
Incipit (leaf a2 recto) reads: Pomponii Melae Cosmographi de situ orbis liber primus.
Includes prefatory letter from the editor, Ermolao Barbaro, to Pope Alexander VI (leaf a1 verso).
Signatures: a-h4 i6.
Leaves printed on both sides; 27 lines per page.
Guide-letters; initial.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Some marginal annotations made in ink in an old hand.
Bound in full vellum over paper boards; the vellum appears to be a leaf taken from an unidentified early book printed in black and red.
