Venice: Per Bartolameu[m] de Zanis de Portesio, anno n[ost]ri Saluatoris 1496 die octo mensis Iunius.
Comments
and Notes:
Includes lives of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, and Carolus Magnus by Donatus Acciaiolus; of Agesilaus by Xenophon (attributed to Plutarch); of Cicero by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (attributed to Plutarch); of Evagoras by Isocrates; of T. Pomponius Atticus by Cornelius Nepos; of Plato by Guarinus Veronensis; of Aristoteles by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (attributed to Guarinus); and of Homer, ascribed to Herodotus.
Translation of: Bioi paralleloi.
Imprint from colophon (leaf S8 recto).
Signatures: a-r8 s10 A-S8.
Leaves printed on both sides; 62 lines per page.
Decorative woodcut border and ill. on leaf a2 recto.
Initials; guide-letters.
"Caroli Magni uiri illustris uita per Donatum Acciolum edita" --Leaves S4 verso-S8 recto.
Register: leaf s10 verso.
Leaf f4 is repeated once in sequence; leaf f5 is lacking, but with no loss of text.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Bookseller's ticket: ... Arthur Lauria ... Paris.
Printed bookseller's catalogue description of this ed. on front pastedown.
Some ms. notes and markings in the margins.
Old full vellum binding over paper boards.