LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus (39-65 A.D.) Pharsalia sive Bellum civile . Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus, revised by Johannes Taberius. Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis for Octavianus Scotus, 31 March 1492. Super-chancery 2 o (298 x 206 mm). Collation : a-s 8 t 1 0 (a1r title, a1v text, t10v colophon, quire register, printer's device). 156 leaves. Roman types 2:80, 3:106 and Greek type 80. Text with commentary surround, 61 lines of commentary. Woodcut white-on-black initials, one on s7r printed upside-down. (Tiny ink-burn catching a few letters on a1v, small natural fault at head of e8 touching a few letters, a few wormholes occasionally catching letters, marginal wormholes at gutter patched on final 6 leaves, a few leaves browned.) Modern blue half morocco, vellum boards, remains of early endpapers in first and last quires (lightly scuffed, final gathering partly sprung); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Antonio Maria Amadi (signature on a1 title crossed out in ink, some ink corrections in text, possibly his) -- Jorge Beristayn (bookplate) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 16 April 1985. Bartholomaeus de Zanis' finely printed edition of Lucanus' great Roman epic, set from Britannicus's Bresia edition of 1486. Third state of quire i, consisting of five sheets duly listed in the quire register; there is no sign of an irregularly inserted sheet to make up text (as recorded in a marginal note in the lithographic reprint of BMC). In the first state quire i has only 4 sheets. Lucanus's Pharsalia vividly recounts the civil war between Pompey and Caesar, and in particular the great battle of Pharsalus (48 B.C.) which gives the book its name, with the remarkable attribute that unlike most Roman epics it eschews the intervention of the gods. HC * 10240; BMC V, 431 (IB 23706) (cf. BMC VII, 975); BSB-Ink L-234; CIBN L-239; IGI 5821; IGI 5821; Goff L-305.
LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus (39-65 A.D.) Pharsalia sive Bellum civile . Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus, revised by Johannes Taberius. Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis for Octavianus Scotus, 31 March 1492. Super-chancery 2 o (298 x 206 mm). Collation : a-s 8 t 1 0 (a1r title, a1v text, t10v colophon, quire register, printer's device). 156 leaves. Roman types 2:80, 3:106 and Greek type 80. Text with commentary surround, 61 lines of commentary. Woodcut white-on-black initials, one on s7r printed upside-down. (Tiny ink-burn catching a few letters on a1v, small natural fault at head of e8 touching a few letters, a few wormholes occasionally catching letters, marginal wormholes at gutter patched on final 6 leaves, a few leaves browned.) Modern blue half morocco, vellum boards, remains of early endpapers in first and last quires (lightly scuffed, final gathering partly sprung); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Antonio Maria Amadi (signature on a1 title crossed out in ink, some ink corrections in text, possibly his) -- Jorge Beristayn (bookplate) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 16 April 1985. Bartholomaeus de Zanis' finely printed edition of Lucanus' great Roman epic, set from Britannicus's Bresia edition of 1486. Third state of quire i, consisting of five sheets duly listed in the quire register; there is no sign of an irregularly inserted sheet to make up text (as recorded in a marginal note in the lithographic reprint of BMC). In the first state quire i has only 4 sheets. Lucanus's Pharsalia vividly recounts the civil war between Pompey and Caesar, and in particular the great battle of Pharsalus (48 B.C.) which gives the book its name, with the remarkable attribute that unlike most Roman epics it eschews the intervention of the gods. HC * 10240; BMC V, 431 (IB 23706) (cf. BMC VII, 975); BSB-Ink L-234; CIBN L-239; IGI 5821; IGI 5821; Goff L-305.
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