Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De republica excerptum.
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. author.; Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Saturnalia. 1492.; Cigalini family, former owner.; Cavaleri, Michele, former owner.; Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), 1864-1938, former owner.; Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519, printer.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
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Title
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De republica excerptum.
Uniform title
Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis
Created/published
Impressi Venetiis : [Giovanni Rosso], anno Domini 1492 die xxviiii Iunii.
Description
[1], LXXXIX [i.e. 90] : ill. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. author.
Cigalini family, former owner.
Cavaleri, Michele, former owner.
Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), 1864-1938, former owner.
Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Cigalini family, former owner.
Cavaleri, Michele, former owner.
Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), 1864-1938, former owner.
Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Title from preface (leaf a2r).
Includes Saturnalia.
Imprint from colophon (leaf p4r).
Signatures: a⁸, b-f⁶, g⁶(-g6,+2), h-o⁶, p⁴.
Leaf a1 is blank.
Includes register.
Capital spaces.
The last leaf of quire g is cut away, a complete sheet of print being inserted in place of it outside the quiring.
Leaf g7 omitted in numbering.
Woodcut diagrams and map of the world.
Includes Saturnalia.
Imprint from colophon (leaf p4r).
Signatures: a⁸, b-f⁶, g⁶(-g6,+2), h-o⁶, p⁴.
Leaf a1 is blank.
Includes register.
Capital spaces.
The last leaf of quire g is cut away, a complete sheet of print being inserted in place of it outside the quiring.
Leaf g7 omitted in numbering.
Woodcut diagrams and map of the world.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-12
BM 15th cent., V, p. 417 (IB.23151)
Hain-Copinger, 10429*
BM 15th cent., V, p. 417 (IB.23151)
Hain-Copinger, 10429*
Includes
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Saturnalia. 1492.
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Item Details
Call number
INC M8 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Several manuscript finding notes with manicules; corrections in text throughout; calculations on verso of back flyleaf. Contemporary Italian sheepskin binding, blind tooled with ropework knot stamps. Inscription on leaf a1v "Ex Libris Cigalinoru[m]"; bookstamp at foot of leaf a2r "Museo Cavaleri"; autograph of H.C. Hoskier, with his provenance "of D. Morgand Paris", his date "Nov. 1902", and his bibliographic notes on front free endpaper (no. 119 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, June 1908); purchased in 1915.