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SOLINUS, Caius Julius (fl. 3rd century). Polyhistor, sive De mirabilibus mundi. -Mirabilia Romae. Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 23 August 1491.
Chancery 4 (204 x 151mm). Collation: a-f 8 g4 (a1r title,a1v dedication, a2r text, f8r Mirabilia Romae (incipit: Murus civitatis habet...), g4v colophon, g5r index). 52 leaves. 37 lines. Type: 6:83R. 3- to 5-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter. (Single small wormhole touching text from quire d, spotting and browning, sometimes heavy, first leaf detached.) Disbound in modern wrapper (front wrapper and title detached). Provenance: marginal notes in a contemporary humanist hand.
Sixth edition, the first and only 15th-century edition to include the Mirabilia Romae. Solinus derived his "wonders of the world" from the natural history of Pliny and the geography of Pomponius Mela. It is suitably joined in this edition by the "wonders of Rome", the earliest surviving guide to that city, which describes the sites of ancient Rome: baths, arches, theatres, catacombs, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, etc. HC *14880; BMC V, 478 (IA. 23554); IGI 9089; Klebs 922.7; Goff S-620.
Chancery 4 (204 x 151mm). Collation: a-f
Sixth edition, the first and only 15th-century edition to include the Mirabilia Romae. Solinus derived his "wonders of the world" from the natural history of Pliny and the geography of Pomponius Mela. It is suitably joined in this edition by the "wonders of Rome", the earliest surviving guide to that city, which describes the sites of ancient Rome: baths, arches, theatres, catacombs, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, etc. HC *14880; BMC V, 478 (IA. 23554); IGI 9089; Klebs 922.7; Goff S-620.