Shelfmark
Bp.21.03 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Bp.21.04 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ie8.3.14 (Copy 3)
Author
Title
Colonna Traiana eretta dal senato e popolo Romano all'imperatore Traiano Augusto nel suo foro in Roma. Scolpita con l'historie della guerra Dacica la prima e la seconda espeditione, e vittoria conto il re Decebalo. / Nuouamente disegnata, et intagliata da Pietro Santi Bartoli. Con l'espositione Latina d'Alfonso Ciaccone, compendiata nella vulgare lingua sotto ciascuna immagine, accresciuta di medaglie, inscrittioni, e trofei, da Gio. Pietro Bellori.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Rome] : Con diligente cura, e spesa ridotta à perfettione, e data in luce da Gio. Giacomo de Rossi dalle sue stampe in Roma, alla Pace con Privilegio del S. Ponetfice., [1673]
Physical description
[2] plates, [2] p., [5], 119 plates, 14, [2] p. : ill., plates ; obl. fol.
Note
Date taken from BL Italian, 1601-1700.
Note
Composed of engraved leaves of plates, save for final 16 pages, which are letterpress.
Note
Final section has caption title: Historia utriusque belli Dacici a Traiano Cæsare gesti ex simulachris in column iusdem Romae uisuntur collecta auctore F. Alphonso Ciacono.
Note
Final section has woodcut initials, and is printed within a single rule border.
Citation/references note
CLC S294
Citation/references note
BL Italian, 1601-1700, p. 820
Provenance
[Bp.21.03]: Armorial bookplate of Eton College. Topham stamp on t.p.: bequeathed to Eton College by Richard Topham in 1736.
Provenance
[Bp.21.04]: Booklabel of Eton College Library.
Provenance
[Ie8.3.14]: Bookplate of Eton College School Library, with booklabel of Macmillan Fund dated 1901. Booklabel "Not to be taken out of the library" inscribed in pencil "Myers Museum".
Binding
[Bp.21.03]: Contemporary sprinkled calf; gold tooled decorative roll along board edges; gold tooled decoration on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters; six raised bands.
Binding
[Bp.21.04]: 18th century half brown leather; boards covered with light grey paper; gold tooled decoration on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled lettters.
Binding
[Ie8.3.14]: ?17th century goatskin; border of gold tooled double fillets.
Copy-specific note
[Bp.21.03, Bp.21.04]: These copies are separate issues, indicated by their different watermarks: Bp.21.03 bears an anchor in a circle surmounted by a star, whilst Bp.21.04 has a paschal lamb.
Copy-specific note
[Ie8.3.14]: Bound as a folio volume with the plates mounted as double plates and the letterpress leaves folded. Watermarks indistinct and obscured by fold. Former shelfmark: Ie8.4.17.
Subject
Trajan's Column (Rome, Italy) Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rome Antiquities Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627 - 1691 publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--name
Eton College. Myers Museum former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy Rome.
Identifier
B29125