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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.

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Italy Venice.

Language code

lat grc

Identifier

B51386
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