Notes: | Title from incipit, leaf [4] recto. Incipit, leaf [1] recto: Ludouicus Cendrata Verone[n]sis eq[ui]ti aurato d[omi]no Antonio Donato patritio Veneto urbis Veronae praetori salutem. Translated by Rufus Aquiliensis; edited by Ludovicus Cendrata. Polain cites Hieronymus Squarzaficus as editor. Colophon: Impressum i[n] inclyta ciuitate Veronae per magistrum Petrum Maufer Gallicum. Anno salutis M.cccc.lxxx octauo kalendas Ianuarii. Pontifice maximo Sixto quarto, & illustrissimo Veneto[rum] duce Ioa[n]ne Mocenigo. An unsigned bifolium, usually bound at the front of the book, contains a prefatory letter by the editor, addressed to Antonius Donatus and dated 30 November 1480, followed by 3 elegiac distichs by Hieronymus Donatus addressed to Ludovicus Cendrata, 11 elegiac distichs of Johannes Antonius Pantheus, and 7 hendecasyllables of Innocens Ziletus. "The only book signed by Maufer at Verona. It was printed at the expense of Innocens Ziletus, who had already published a book at Pogliano"--Pollard. Signatures: pi² a¹⁰ b⁸ c⁶ d-k⁸ 2k⁸ l-x⁸ y⁶ A-C⁸ D⁶; leaves a2-5 missigned 'a1-4'. 36 lines; type (from BMC), 111R; capital spaces, some with guide letters. "Iosephi Machaciae filii Hebraei genere sacerdotis ex Hierosolymis De antiquitate Iudaeorum contra Appionem grammaticum Alexandrinum"--Leaves [185] recto-[213] verso. Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ij00484000 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M15185 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 9452* Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry J-484 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, 951 (IB.30733) Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 6918 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry I-621 Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables, entry J-313 Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry J-221 Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d'Italia, entry 5388 Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... collected by Rush C. Hawkins, entry 347 Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, entries 3373, 3374 Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, entry 2597 Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, entry 2334 Incunabula in Dutch libraries, entry 1822 Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France MS, entry 6753 (6716)
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