Shelfmark
Gk.6.21
Author
Uniform title
[Silvae]
Title
Statii Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II. Orthographia et flexus dictionum Graecarum omnium apud Statium cum accentib. et generib. ex uariis utriusq[ue] linguae authoribus..
Varying form of title
Statii Sylvarvm libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri,, mense Ianuario. M.D.XIX. [1519]
Physical description
294, [2] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Language
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Imprint from colophon on leaf O8r.
Note
Dedicatory letter to Domitius and Paschalus Marinus, by Franciscus Asulanus; followed by the letter of Aldus Manutius to Ioannes Pontanus, reprinted from the edition of 1502.
Note
Printer's anchor and dolphin device with inscription "Aldus" on title page and repeated on verso of final leaf.
Note
Signatures: a-z⁸ A-O⁸ (k2 blank except for signature, C5 has single word "Achilleidos").
Note
Spaces left with guide letters for initials.
Citation/references note
EDIT16, CNCE 53846
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice during the 1740s-60s, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Colonel Sir Charles Forbes-Leith on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Binding
?18th-century laced-case vellum over pasteboards. Covers undecorated. Spine flat, decorated with gilt titling over red label ("Statii Papinii -- Aldus 1519"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's notes on front flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.6.4.
Subject
Subject
Epic poetry, Latin Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Vellum bindings.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Manuzio, Aldo, 1547 - 1597 printer.
Added entry--name
Torresanus, Andreas, 1451 - 1529 de Asula, printer.
Added entry--name
Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius) Achilleis.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Smith, Joseph, 1674 - 1770 former owner.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Forbes-Leith, Charles, 1859 - 1930 Sir, former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B51386