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HERODIANUS (fl. 3rd century A.D.). Historia de imperio post Marcum. Translated from Greek into Latin by Angelus Politianus (1454-1494). Bologna: Franciscus [Plato] de Benedictis, 31 August 1493.
Chancery 2o (265 x 195 mm). Collation: aa-hh8 ii4 (aa1r blank, aa1v translator's prefatory letter to Andreas Magnanimus, aa2r translator's dedication to Pope Innocent VIII, aa3r text, ii4v colophon, register, printer's device). 66 leaves (of 68, lacking dd1 and gg1). Type: 1:112R. 35 lines and printed marginalia. Two- to five-line initial spaces, with printed guide-letters. Title on a3r printed in red. (Lacking dd1 and gg1, supplied in facsimile, remnant of printed description pasted to a1r, the last quire with small marginal wormholes affecting the printed marginalia on the last two leaves, the last leaf soiled, occasional pale spotting and toning). Modern library leatherette.
Provenance: marginal and interlinear annotations in a contemporary hand (occasionally shaved) -- William Morris: Kelmscott House bookplate -- Rose K. Wheeler: bookplate on a fragment of an earlier flyleaf tipped in.
Second edition, and, according to BMC, the first authorized edition. The previous edition, printed in Rome on 20 June 1493, contained neither the marginalia nor the letter to Magnanimus. There were three incunable editions of Herodian, all published in 1493.
Herodian's history deals with the Roman empire from the death of Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180 to the accession of Gordian III in 258, and is generally considered the most reliable source for that period. It was one of a number of Greek texts translated into Latin by the humanist Angelo Poliziano.
HC 8467*; BMC VI, 827 (IB. 28909); BSB-Ink. H-118; CIBN H-52; IGI 4090; Pr 6598; Goff H-86.
Chancery 2
Provenance: marginal and interlinear annotations in a contemporary hand (occasionally shaved) -- William Morris: Kelmscott House bookplate -- Rose K. Wheeler: bookplate on a fragment of an earlier flyleaf tipped in.
Second edition, and, according to BMC, the first authorized edition. The previous edition, printed in Rome on 20 June 1493, contained neither the marginalia nor the letter to Magnanimus. There were three incunable editions of Herodian, all published in 1493.
Herodian's history deals with the Roman empire from the death of Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180 to the accession of Gordian III in 258, and is generally considered the most reliable source for that period. It was one of a number of Greek texts translated into Latin by the humanist Angelo Poliziano.
HC 8467*; BMC VI, 827 (IB. 28909); BSB-Ink. H-118; CIBN H-52; IGI 4090; Pr 6598; Goff H-86.