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VICTOR, Publius (attributed to; dates uncertain). De regionibus urbis Romae libellus aureus. Edited by Aulus Janus Parrhasius. [Milan: Joannes Angelus Scinzenzeler, ca. 1503-6].
4° (222 x 149 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation: [1-24] (1/1r title, 1/1v editor's verse dedication to Stephanus de Poncher, Bishop of Paris, 1/2r text, 2/3v lists of libraries, obelisks, bridges, squares, basilicas, thermal baths, fountains, streets, and pagan shrines, etc. 2/4v concluding verses headed Hyacinthus Arpinas, privilege statement). 8 leaves, 1/2r-2/3v in double column. Type 110R. Traces of bearer type on 2/4v. (Tiny filled hole to upper inner margin of first leaf.) 19th-century straight-grained green morocco, covers panelled in gilt, smooth spine gilt tooled and lettered, gilt edges (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, very rare, of this list of the monuments of ancient Rome, divided into districts, from the Porta Capena to the Transtyberina. The edition is attributed to Scinzenzeler because it is printed in his type. He printed several other works edited by the humanist Aulus Janus Parrhasius, who worked in Milan from 1499 to 1506. Stephanus de Poncher, to whom the book is dedicated, became Bishop of Paris on 3 February 1503, thus establishing the probable span of dates for this publication.
The text was reprinted as an addendum to editions of Saint Bede, De temporibus, Venice 1505 and 1509, in the Aldine 1518 edition of Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis (see lot 66), and in various later editions of works related to Rome (see, for example, lot 69).
Adams A-651; cf. Cicognara 3910 (1509 edition).
4° (222 x 149 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation: [1-24] (1/1r title, 1/1v editor's verse dedication to Stephanus de Poncher, Bishop of Paris, 1/2r text, 2/3v lists of libraries, obelisks, bridges, squares, basilicas, thermal baths, fountains, streets, and pagan shrines, etc. 2/4v concluding verses headed Hyacinthus Arpinas, privilege statement). 8 leaves, 1/2r-2/3v in double column. Type 110R. Traces of bearer type on 2/4v. (Tiny filled hole to upper inner margin of first leaf.) 19th-century straight-grained green morocco, covers panelled in gilt, smooth spine gilt tooled and lettered, gilt edges (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, very rare, of this list of the monuments of ancient Rome, divided into districts, from the Porta Capena to the Transtyberina. The edition is attributed to Scinzenzeler because it is printed in his type. He printed several other works edited by the humanist Aulus Janus Parrhasius, who worked in Milan from 1499 to 1506. Stephanus de Poncher, to whom the book is dedicated, became Bishop of Paris on 3 February 1503, thus establishing the probable span of dates for this publication.
The text was reprinted as an addendum to editions of Saint Bede, De temporibus, Venice 1505 and 1509, in the Aldine 1518 edition of Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis (see lot 66), and in various later editions of works related to Rome (see, for example, lot 69).
Adams A-651; cf. Cicognara 3910 (1509 edition).