Caii Plinii secundi Nouocomensis oratoris facundissimi Epistolarum liber primus incipit.

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Author / Creator:Pliny, the Younger, author.
Uniform title:Epistularum libri IX
Imprint:[Treviso] : Impressum quidem est hoc opus Taruisii per magristru[m] Ioannem Vercellium, anno salutis MCCCCLXXXIII [1483]
Description:[92] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Language:Latin
Subject:
Format: Print Book
Local Note:Copy 1: University of Chicago Library's copy lacking leaves [1] and [8].
Copy 2: University of Chicago Library's copy lacking leaf [1].
Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2776540
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Varying Form of Title:Caii Plinii secvndi Novocomensis oratoris facvndissimi Epistolarvm liber primvs incipit
Other authors / contributors:Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519, printer.
Provenance:Copy 1: Extensive former owners' manuscript annotations in several hands; manicules; annotations trimmed on fore-edge.
Copy 1: Decoration: Illuminated initials "F" and "Q" with illuminated border featuring foliate designs and putti on leaf [2] recto; some alternating red and blue initials; partially rubricated.
Copy 2: Former owner's manuscript annotations in 3 hands, including textual corrections; underscoring; manicules; some annotations allegedly in the hand of Pomponius Laetus.
Copy 1: Binding: Vellum over boards.
Notes:Books 1-7, 9; book 9 numbered "liber octavus."
Title from inicipit, leaf [2] recto.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: a-l⁸ m⁴.
33 lines; type (from BMC), 82R; capital spaces, some with guide letters.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ip00808000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M34361
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 13113*
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Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, page 896 (IA. 28433)
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 6497
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry P-615
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry P-378

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