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| Author:
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Mela, Pomponius. |
| Short
Title: |
De chorographia
(1478) |
| Title:
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Pomponij Melle Cosmographi de situ orbis liber primus-[tertius]
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| Imprint:
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Venice: impressum est hoc opusculu[m] ... per Franciscum renner de Hailbrun, 1478. |
| Comments
and Notes: |
A close reprint of Maler and Ratdolt's 1478 edition (BMC).
Title from incipit (leaf a1 recto); imprint from colophon (leaf f8 verso).
Signatures: a-f8.
Leaves printed on both sides; 26-27 lines per page.
Printed in black and red; initials; side notes.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Bound in heavy white paper with author's name inscribed on spine and front cover.
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| Smithsonian
Call Number: |
PA6512 .A2 1478 |
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ISTC
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Goff
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Hain-Copinger
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GW
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Proctor
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Polain
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UKBYIM00450000-B
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M-0450
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| Author:
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Mela, Pomponius |
| Short
Title: |
De chorographia
(1482) |
| Title:
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Pomponij Mellae Cosmographi geographia : Prisciani quoq[ue] ex Dionysio Thessalonicensi De situ orbis interpretatio.
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| Imprint:
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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.
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| Smithsonian
Call Number: |
PA6512 .A2 1482 |
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ISTC
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Goff
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Hain-Copinger
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GW
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Proctor
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Polain
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UKBYIM00452000-B
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M-0452
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| Author:
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Mela, Pomponius |
| Short
Title: |
De chorographia
(1493) |
| Title:
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Pomponii Melae Cosmographi de situ orbis liber primus.
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| Imprint:
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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.
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| Smithsonian
Call Number: |
PA6512 .A2 1493 |
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ISTC
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Goff
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Hain-Copinger
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GW
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Proctor
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Polain
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UKBYIM00453000-B
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M-0453
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