Shelfmark
DDf.6.05
Main entry--uniform title
De viris illustribus Romae
Title
C. Plinii. II. oratoris Veronensis de viris illustribus feliciter liber incipit.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Rome] : [G. Sachsel and B. Golsch], [ca. 1475?].
Physical description
[348] leaves ; 4to.
Note
Previously Cd.2.4.10, and Df.6.5.
Note
Ascribed to Pliny the Younger, but probably wrongly. Also sometimes ascribed to Sextus Aurelius Victor.
Note
No title-page; catalogued from opening to leaf 3r. Openeing text (leaf 2r) reads "Angelus Tiphernas Iustino S.D. ...".
Note
Place of printing and printer from BMC; date tentatively assumed from date of event mentioned in epigram on leaf 2v (Sept. 1474).
Note
Incomplete: wants first (blank) leaf.
Note
Loose sheet of ms. notes on authorship and edition.
Citation/references note
Hain 2129; Proctor 3482; Goff P720; BMC IV 55
Provenance
Label of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Ms. note reading "Storer Collection"; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
?19th century gold-tooled morocco.
Subject
Classical biography Early works to 1500.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Pliny the Younger.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Italy Rome.
Identifier
B16313